You, Her and Me

Smothered in lies
Let down by life
Behind her beautiful fake smiles
She secretly cries

Veins dried up and pumping dust
Her heart frozen;
As though time ever even mattered
And still she’s learning

Let your heart love
Let it break
Let it mourn
Let it grieve
Let it smile
Eventually let it die
Like a weltering flower

Cold hands in need of warmth;
Warmth found within your soul
Never dying but
Forever changing

Chemically, you act like oxygen
But I know your mass is different
Physically, you’re translucent
You show me your light, but you hide all your images

Eyes blinded with the sun shining through
Her darkness is shadowed
As she walks upon its thickness
And trips into its shallow waters

In the water she sees her reflection
She looks into her own eyes
And she sees the secrets she’s left locked up
Linked to her past; her own ball and chain

Cuffed against the tide
Weighed down by her own insecurities
Drowning in her pride
Lost, torn and inside-out
Cut deep within me so I can breathe without you