Why Am I Still Standing Here?
Why am I still standing here
In this place where I was once happy
Even though I close my eyes
I still feel you staring down at me
Why won't you leave me alone?
How am I supposed to move on with this stare?
This stare burrowing deep
As I cross the frame into your mind
The threshold of insanity?
Looking at this rope that once bound
Me to you, You to me
Together we are lovers yet strangers
That rope thickened
Became stronger
So did we
In my mind the rope became real
Wrapped around you
Never to let you go into the darkness between
Loves lost and loves gained
This empty void of my heart
Where you left me
Standing yet falling on the shards of a broken heart
Cutting deep piercing my smile, turning it sour
With the poison of a thousand love songs you quoted to me
Yes, I know, you don't have to tell me
But I didn't say anything
For the thought was still the same
So now we come to identify
That very poison that has been used on others
Just like me
Ignorance in this case has been the bringer of much evil
But the giver of so much good
So if I die of this ache
At least I'll know
It was worth it in the end
While the rope frays and floats away in the wind
Strands of what we once had