Anything less than you

Anything more than him

I got your letter in the mail

It only took you four years to write

So sick of the choking mist

Bored by the gradient days

You have no feelings to own

You have nobody to yearn

Anything less than kind

Anything more than fear

I’ve seen a better version of you

He has a man who treats him well

The anger sits still like a stone

Unweathered by time

Spending years in drooling silence

Until you’ve learned how to release

This is how it ends

Yes, this is how it ends

I don’t know what he wanted

I don’t know what your price was

And no one’s here to save you

At least that’s what we expected

How’d you think that made me feel?

The rain is falling upwards

Breaks bones and burns your skin

Don’t scream until he’s finished

Don’t breathe until you’re taken

Just cry until it’s done

Just laugh until it’s fun

Pretty soon there’ll be nothing left

So don’t think you weren’t asking for it

How’d you think that made me feel?

It hurts

Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out

The only way he lives is through your pain

The resentment starts to build when you’re as hollow as your cheeks were

And your God doesn’t take you apart when the strings are loose and your eyes have faded

Nostalgia will deceive you, it’s benign but prays it’s a cancer

And your dreams may seem like labor, but you have to be your savor

Bury the child that you were and compost his heart after

And you’re just a tick in time, so don’t waste it on his cries

Don’t claw as the days go by

Don’t cry for who you were

He’s happy where he went

I don’t know where you began

But you’re welcome here

You are where you belong

So look as the clouds roll by

Hear what they whisper

And fly free as a bird

And feel the warm sun’s embrace