Attachment wraps like cold steel,
A binding touch that feels unreal.
Cuffed wrists, a silent plea,
Am I the prisoner or set free?

The key is lost, or never found,
Caught between love’s silent sound.
Am I the captive or the key?
In this locked dance, who holds me?

A kiss like metal, sharp and deep,
A promise made, a secret to keep.
Are we bound, or do we break?
In your hold, is it love or just fate?

Love once hummed in perfect tune,
A symphony beneath the moon,
Each heartbeat a scar we couldn't mend
like a melody we softly bled.

But silence crept through shifting skies,
Like violins with broken cries,
The notes we knew dissolved in mist,
A phantom of songs we once had kissed.

Now every chord is out of place,
Each rhythm stumbles, lost in space,
The lyrics fall like brittle leaves,
A ballad bruised by make-believe.

Where harmony once wrapped us tight,
Only aching echoes ring in the night,
our love, a song without its core,
Drifts unheard forevermore.

Beneath the moon's soft, stolen glow,
Whispers thread the air, low and slow.
A touch, a breath, a fleeting glance,
In shadows deep, we find our dance.

The stars stand guard, their light a veil,
Letting passion speak where our hearts prevail.
The world's asleep, yet we're awake,
In secrets shared, in love's embrace.

The moon, our witness, silent and wise,
Conceals the truth behind its skies.
Its silver beams trace every move,
A silent ally, sworn to prove.

Among the galaxies, we slip through time,
Two comets lost in love’s old rhyme.
In moonlight's hold, we choose to stay,
Two souls astray, yet led love's way.

When dawn arrives, we'll fade from view,
The moon will guard what we once knew;
A secret kept in whispered rhyme,
A moonlit alibi, frozen in time.

Skies turn gray, but I don't mind
it's matched my mood for quite some time.
The rain taps the window like a soft lullaby,
I close my eyes and let it lie.

I pour my tears into a glass,
a toast to the things that didn't last.
The love, the laughs, the perfect plans
Slipped like water through my hands.

Let the kingdoms fade like perfume in the rain,
weren't they just illusions anyway?
I wore the crown, I played the part,
Now all I want is a softer heart.

So I wrap my hurt in velvet threads,
Tuck it beneath my tangled head.
And maybe when I wake someday,
the pain will have flown away.

'Cause even sorrow's got a song,
and darkness doesn't stay long.
The sun still kisses the morning dew
And I'll dream my way back to you.

Love was an hourglass, steady and bright,
Each promise a grain in the softening light.
We watched as the moments began to slip,
A fleeting dream from your trembling lips.

Each grain was a hope, a word we had shared,
A promise to hold, a love we declared.
But time, like a thief, took what we knew,
All the sands fell out and so did you.

You held the base, I grasped the top,
Fingers trembling, unable to stop.
The glass began to crack and break,
And with it, our love began to ache.

The sands of our heart scattered wide,
No longer a rhythm, no longer a guide.
Each grain a reminder of what once was,
Now dust in the air, with no reason or cause.

And in the end all that’s left to see,
Are shards of what we used to be.
The hourglass shattered, the promises gone,
Just dust in the air and a love withdrawn.

You touched my hand in ocean air,
The boardwalk hummed a sultry tune.
With cherry lips and windswept hair,
We danced beneath a silver moon.

We soared down coastal roads,
Chasing the stars, kissing the sky
Love bloomed in secret, sweet and bold,
Then faded fast like summer nights in July.

The sunset burned, the tide grew cold,
You whispered dreams, then slipped away.
Now memories, like dust and gold,
Still haunt the heat of yesterday.

The mind is a haunted house draped in lace,
With perfume ghosts and a cracked mirror face.
Creaking doors lead to rooms of regret,
Where old love letters are damp with sweat.

In the attic, dreams hang like gowns,
Sequins and shadows in delicate frowns.
I slow dance with memory, dressed in a night,
A flash, one moment and then I say goodbye.

Down in the dark where the secrets sleep,
I hum lullabies that still make me weep.
So if you knock, come in gentle and slow
Not every locked door has something you want to know.

I wear my face like painted glass,
A porcelain mask they let me pass.
Smiles stitched with silent grace,
No one sees the hurt in my face.

Rouged my cheeks to hide the cracks,
Polished lies and quiet acts.
Beauty’s just a veil, it seems,
Thin as breath and lost in dreams.

Behind the shine, I want to scream,
But silence keeps the world in theme.
So I perform, composed, serene,
A haunted girl in a pretty scene.

We move like glaciers, slow and still,
A love that wears the earth away,
With ancient strength, it bends the will,
And carves the stone where shadows lay.

Through frozen winds, it makes its path,
A force that never sways,
It leaves no trace, but holds the wrath,
Of centuries that never fade.

Beneath the ice, it hides so deep,
Preserving what the world can’t see,
With frozen hearts together we softly sleep,
wrapped up in a love as endless as the sea.

You and I, we’re carved in ice,
It may be cold, but still, it’s true
A love that’s frozen, pure, precise,
Oh, our glacier love, it’s made for me and you.

There’s a tidepool behind my heart,
small and silver in the evening's breath.
Not deep, but torn in every part
holding you close, keeping your death.

A cracked ring lies in the brine,
still warm with what we never said.
A memory flickers, out of time,
like candlelight around the bed.

***** click like clocks inside my chest,
marking hours I can’t reclaim.
Anemones bloom with soft unrest,
each one uncurling saying your name.

The tide recedes but leaves it all—
your cologne, your smirk, a Polaroid of our crowd.
A sea-star clings against the wall,
where everything we built has fallen down.

No current comes to pull it free,
this shallow grave of silent songs.
But I return religiously,
to worship where your ghost belongs.

So yeah,
the moon looks on forever marred,
but this is where I rot instead.
In the tidepool of a love too hard,
where nothing lives, but nothing's dead.

The rain whispers secrets on the glass,
Telling me stories from our love gone past.
I stare far off and let the tears roll down my face,
Wishing the storm would wash away your name.

I’m asking now, don’t you think it’s cruel?
You stole my heart like some beautiful jewel.
You ran away and you didn’t care
Now I’m alone here dressed in silk and despair.

You said you needed some place new
But you took my heart in your vintage shoes.
Now I’m listening to the rain, soft and slow
Like the score to a black and white show.

I’ve been dancing with a ghost of you
Begging the storm to let me drown in the gloom
You were the only song I ever believed
Now you’ve gone to chase a bygone dream

I’m begging the rain to drop your name on every rose
And telling the moon to hold you close
Begging you to feel the ache we used to know
Hoping a flood of love again grows.

Her kisses were loaded dice,
Each touch a wager, tossed in the air,
A chance to lose, a chance to slice,
To see if love was truly there.

She hummed her lines like lullabies,
But in her gaze the trap was laid,
A bluff concealed in velvet lies,
Where every wager bled and paid.

With every kiss, a coin was spent,
Her smile, a mask of sweet deceit,
She’d deal the cards, her heart unbent,
And leave you scrambling at her feet.

She played the odds, she took her turn,
Each moment etched in faint disguise,
But in the loss, you’d always yearn,
For more of her endless lies.

I fold my dreams into corners of cotton,
lying alone in perfume stained sheets.
The night hums low, like a record forgotten,
playing your name on repeat.

Love was a crane I tried to fashion
from motel linens and lullaby lies
but paper hearts don't beat with passion
and are torn apart without goodbyes.

You held me like a secret stanza,
lips inked with things you wouldn't say.
Each kiss a promise in italics,
each embrace in soft decay.

We were origami, darling;
beautiful, but each fold unraveled in the end.
I search for you in the creases of craving,
In pursuit of our love again.

Your tears, they fall like crystal rain
Each one a song of sweet despair
I trace the edges of your pain
And lose myself in shadows there

My baby, you're a dream undone
A broken hymn, a bleeding star
Still shining when the night is gone
Still beautiful, just as you are

Your scent, it haunts my every sigh
A ghost that clings to skin and bone
Your lips once red now whisper why
And leave me feeling more alone

I love the way you fade away
Like smoke that slips through grasping hands
A rose that wilts but dares to stay
Still blooming in the shifting lands

You're lost to time
But in my mind you linger, true
A tragic song, a dying rhyme
My darling, I'm here and still I worship you

I packed for love or so I thought,
With truths I wore and the lies you brought.
A threadbare trust in a dress of grace,
Your smile tucked into the velvet case.

Hidden deep beneath the seams,
Were ghosts that danced amongst my dreams.
Each one a whisper soft and low,
A secret you thought I'd never know.

A kiss that strayed, a veiled excuse,
A promise made and then cut loose.
You folded guilt in woven lies
And tucked it snug under alibis.

They stir each time I try to sleep,
A weight I carry, buried deep.
They follow close, like silent hosts
I'm bearing a suitcase full of ghost.

Now every step I feel the drag,
the silent weight, like a tattered flag.
No zipper shuts them in too tight,
I'm haunted still by morning light.

His blow fell soft, like love’s deceit,
A kiss disguised in cruel repeat.
The bruise bloomed slow, a violet kiss,
A ghost of touch I dared not miss.
He held me close, then pulled away,
A pendulum of night and day.
He spoke in petals, struck in thorns,
Left warmth inside the coldest scorn.
He broke me gently, piece by piece,
Each crack a vow, a promise he wouldn't keep.
But love was fire I couldn't tame,
So still I stayed and took the flame.

Love walked backward from the shore,
its footprints swallowed by the tide,
no farewell, no final roar,
just silence where it did reside.

It kissed the rocks with embrace,
then slipped beneath the grayest hue,
pulling the warmth from every place,
where once our laughter grew.

I stood, a beacon dim and worn,
as all we were slipped out to sea.
The tide withdrew what I had sworn
to hold; then left the wreck of me.

Now in the hush of every wave,
I hear the ghost of what we knew.
Love drifts the way the ocean wanes,
not all at once, but true and through.

Behind the glass, I wear my crown,
frozen twirls in plastic grace.
Blue lips smile as I spin around,
with glittery flakes upon my face.

They twist the key to make me spin,
my dance begins, then fades to slow.
A hollow waltz I float within,
beneath the pale and falling snow.

A vinyl tune begins to play,
a haunted hum that chills the bone.
Its notes drift through a world of gray,
unheard by hearts long turned to stone.

I waltz beneath a shattered moon,
each step a dream that’s slipped away.
A brittle dance to a broken tune,
with memories that never stay.

I wear my fate like silk and lace,
where loneliness and ache entwine.
A hollow smile on a porcelain face,
my ballgown trapped in frozen time.

Sadness lingers, soft and bold,
in silence where no stars explode.
A tragedy spun in winter’s cold;
a girl trapped in a ******* snow globe.

I feel so tired,
I feel so alone,
and yet in this life
it's all I've ever known.

Darkness looms within my mind
Eating up all of my insides
All good things come to an end
But what happens when they never began?

Am I stuck in limbo
Forever in this war
Do I even know myself?
Just a shell of who I was before.

Committing to everything is all that I want,
but the guilt living in my head is what haunts
I seem in the moment to be able to forget
all the good things that live within my head.

I know there will come a time when I will make that choice
but do I try to make forever last or do I fall into the void?

The needle drops like rain at night,
Soft hiss, then suffering takes its flight
Your voice a ghost in satin sound,
Still sings the lie that brought me down.

It spins around, so bittersweet,
Sounds of idolatry on every beat,
Same chorus clings like cigarette ash,
Your same old promise, the same old crash.

In candlelit noir, I play pretend,
and darling this track just won’t end
Just vinyl tears and minor chords,
Your love is a loop of empty words.

“You’ll never be alone,” you said
But baby, that skip plays loud instead.
A line that lingers, carved in pain,
Are like desires that lurk in the rain.

You were the song I always craved,
I was the silence you couldn’t save.
Now every dusk, I press rewind,
And bleed your echo from my mind.

Same song, same skip,
Playing over in essence
And that lyric still haunts me,
Like a fingerprint on all my affections.

The past was riddled with solitude,
I woke up in lace, like an old movie scene.
Now morning hums in a honeyed mood,
Last night you treated me like a queen.

The sky was heavy just before,
in shades of black and blue.
Now the storms don't come anymore,
Since all I see is you.

The night once sang in minor keys,
and every hour felt like pain.
Now even silence seems to please,
As I hear your voice in the rain.

There's color where the gray once stayed,
a bloom where I had only thorns.
The price of love was what I paid,
and in return the world was yours.

Since then I live in softer light,
A dreamscape soaked in vintage hue.
Our romance has set the world alight
What's changed? Babe, just me and you.

At my gate the shadows shimmer,
Amber leaves dance in the dusk
That west coast wind cuts like liquor,
And love still tastes like rust.

Lovers drift down boulevards,
Mixed amongst dreams and wine,
But I lean against the neon,
Still stuck in another time.

Oh, I never shook those crystal eyes,
They're ghosts in every stare
I ache for arms that held me tight,
back when forever lived there.

As I smoke beneath the streetlight
thinking we burned too young.
The moon won't say a **** thing,
But I'm still chained to us.

Hung from the moon where the city can't see
with lipstick smudged secrets you left all over me.
If silence is golden, then let it be mine.
I'll carry your touch through to the edges of time.

Thunder and lace and smoke curls in my hair,
you loved me like danger and vanished like air.
But I'd dance through the forever for you feeling so brave,
if only you'd whisper my name like I'm something to save.

If love is a drug then I'll take the dose
Let it burn through my blood, let it bring me close.
You watched as I opened, a flower in bloom,
like a song with no ending in a candlelit room.

And I'd do it again, to bring us into play
Just to taste your dangerous goodbye
like a moth to the flame.

In a world where time bends like light through a prism,
three colors met entwined in perfect rhythm.
A crimson spark, bold and untamed.
A violet mix amongst the dark,
And midnight blue the sky does make.
A love that dances through endless nights
Turns out; perfect is found within this life.

They touched in whispers and heart's desires.
A painted fate brushed in fire.
No start, no end, just dreams that mend,
A canvas vast, where hues all blend.

One lifetime red, burned bright and wild,
the muse, the fire, the reckless child.
Another twilight, violet blends red,
steady hands shared where lost hearts dread.
And when the world would turn to blue,
he'd hold them close as he'd always do.

Three colors woven together never torn,
A trifecta spun in fate's design,
No lines to break, no end of time.
For love like this does not decay,
it bends the light, it shapes the way.

Cherry stained lips in the heat of July,
dripping sweet nothings like peach colored wine.
He called me his sugar, his muse, his flame,
but summer's a dream that won't ever remain.

Lemon light kisses strewn in my hair
his hands are on my hips and pulling me there.
He tasted like heat waves and strawberry sins,
a charm so alluring he ****** me right in.

Now the orchard is quiet the nectar runs dry,
the vines are all empty, silently I cry.
If I close my eyes I can still taste the past,
sweet like a promise and too golden to last.

A vintage dress and lips of red,
under the moonlight drawing me in,
songs of fire, shadows, and sin
dance for the living and mourn for the dead.

The autumn air, it bites and chills
the night's a stage the graveyard's still
Your whisper of my name, a soft regret
A love song for me playing on your lips

A spell is cast with blood and bloom
the scent of roses fills the tomb
with flowers growing in my hands
and my fractured faults here I stand.

Your voice still lingers, a hollow sigh
you said you'd stay, but ghosts don't lie
Forever bound to October skies,
where the dead don't sleep and my love never dies.

The moon wears a veil of silver lament,
Spinning slow in a waltz with the tides.
She hums in the hush where the lovers sweat, drunk on the night with memories gone blind.

The sky is a stage and she plays all her parts, the maiden, then mother, then ghost in a haze.
Just a lover, a liar, a thief of lost hearts, watching us burn in the blue of our days.

But time is a tide and she's just the moon, pulling and fading then full once again.
A clock with no hands just cycles round noon
A carousel turning where times always thin.

She whispers in echoes of centuries past
Soft as a prayer, a glow to soak in
Lovers dance beneath not knowing she's where time began.

I wear a smile and play the part
Hide the storm inside my heart.
As long as you don't meet my gaze,
You'll never see I'm lost in a haze.
Racing forward, standing still.
Waiting games are breaking my will.
Hours blur and chaos stays
While spinning through these endless days.
Too much to do, too much to lose,
I'm drowning in the wish for new.

The battle in my mind rages loud
and on the outside I'm calm,
but really there's no one around
and so into depression I fall

the silence is eerie where I sit,
in limbo with the love and hate
one side so deserving of one to commit
the other longing for a dreadful fate

there is nothing left to be done or said
no words to help heal the heart
when you live a life at war with yourself
and call your chaos an art

The weight of the void pulls me deep,
a temptation I can’t seem to outlast.
The only solace I find is in sleep
bound by the nightmares of my past.

When everything is loud the mind goes silent
but never in the way one would like it
The race is so overwhelming it's now just a hum
The hands are steady but the mind grows numb
Eager to please unsteady to rise
Constant exhaustion from boundaries pushed aside.
Anger held down suppressed in the void
Feelings inundate, set up to destroy.

This is your life, love; ending minute by minute,
A cigarette's kiss with no fire left in it.
You bloom like a rosebud in the Hollywood haze,
Chasing forever through borrowed bouquets.

Time slips its hands round your soft throat,
Beautiful as the lies in a suicide note.
You dance in the dark with memories you once knew,
Life is fleeting and darling, so are you.

Golden and gone in the blink of an eye,
Perfume lingers with your half-written cry.
You wanted to burn, just not flicker and fade,
But the stars never weep for the mess that they made.

Of all of the hearts that you tried to outrun,
None of them stayed to see you undone.
So sip on your sorrow, it’s vintage and blue;
This is your life, and it’s leaving you too.

It starts with an itch beneath the skin,
silence breaking deep within.
No warning alarm, no dying hymns
just pressure building at the brim.

My past hangs heavy, rough and tight,
a suit of scale that dims the light.
But growth is cruel; it splits, it rips,
and leaves you naked to your tips.

I scrape along the jagged stone,
each twist a crack, each breath my own.
rendering a new me with changes inside,
the façade I wore, my pains died.

While I'm raw in this new guise,
I'm rising with sharper, clearer eyes.
For loss is gain when change begins,
like a serpent I'm freed from dying within.

The sky breaks open just for me,
A cloud that follows silently.
While strangers laugh in sunlit grace,
I drown beneath a sweet disgrace.

Their shoes stay dry, their faces glow,
While I’m in a forecast of sleet and snow.
Rivers run down my cheeks,
A storm too tender, soft, and weak.

I’m dancing slow in this old dress of mine,
While they sip on dreams as smooth as red wine.
A wispy sigh, a constant flow of fears:
No one sees the thunder here.

Umbrellas lift in hands not mine,
So chilled, I feel the ache every time.
This rainfall is stitched into my skin,
A war I lost, a hell I’m in.

While they stay dry and look away,
I’ll glisten here in dark disarray
So let it pour, I’ll play the part,
A walking storm with a well meaning heart.

You wore soft silk and sugared lies,
A whisper wrapped in alibis.
But I saw hunger in your grace,
A wild thing with a porcelain face.

You moved like smoke beneath the moon,
A dream turned to ruins so soon.
They watched you smile, they sang your name,
But I could feel the claws through fame.

A wolf in wool, so sweet, so sly,
Wrapped in a melancholic lullaby.
You hid your fangs in a kiss,
And led me blind through every twist.

I thought your love was pure gold,
But underneath, it burned ice cold.
The way you laughed, the way you lied;
Finding a fairytale where truth had died.

You played it cool, you played it neat,
A ticking heart beneath the beat.
And now I wear the scars you've sewn,
A lamb, the one who should have known.

I don’t know why I didn’t see,
The monster hidden in my sheets.
You wore the fleece, but I saw through;
The only beast inside here was you.

I’ve got you buried in my blood like wine,
A slow addiction I can’t leave alone.
You kiss my soul, then blur the signs,
A twisted love hitting down in my bones.
I tried to run, but always come back home,
Your voice, a lullaby I can’t ignore.
Lighting a cigarette and set the tone;
I ache for things that hurt me more.
They say I’m cursed, they say I should let go,
But I would trade my peace to feel you near.
Your name’s a prayer that I still whisper low,
Even when ghosts of you are all I hear.

We just keep moving, like clouds on parade,
Silk in the breeze, then we slowly fade.
Life keeps turning, the records still play,
But my heart’s stuck in that old café.

It felt so good, it still feels right;
Two shadows dancing in the neon light.
We’re not together, but love still stays,
Haunting my lips in a thousand ways.

I still wear your name like a perfume trail,
Whispers sweet like a mourning gale.
Your ghost shows up when the moon is high,
Speaking your truth through supple lies.

They say love’s forever or it fades away,
But I’m still hoping you’ll call someday.
It hurts, it burns, but I won’t let go;
Some loves just linger, like fallen snow.

There’s a garden gate behind my ribs,
Where trembling wings perform their fibs.
A thousand hearts in frantic flight,
Beating storms through sleepless nights.

Their feathers flicker, burning gold,
Hummingbirds filling me with lies as told.
Each flutter fans a shadowed flame,
Of whispered guilt and breathless blame.

Sugared air turns thick with grief,
Their tiny bodies beg relief,
But every time I try to breathe,
They scatter; won’t let me believe.

Glass and honey, blood and bloom,
Their chaos swells to fill the room.
And all I do is wear a smile,
While dying softly all the while.

I play roulette with every thought,
Spinning chambers I forgot.
Mirror demons sip my tears,
Whisper vices in my ears.

Will it be the blade of blame,
Or pills pressed down with sweeter shame?
A noose of pearls, a kiss of lead,
Which love song will I die with? My dread.

Velvet chains or drowning gin,
Sapphire lies or suffering’s din.
Every shadow takes its turn,
To light the match and watch me burn.

Choose your weapon, take the stage,
Beauty bleeding out of rage.
Gold-tipped sorrow, silk regret…
Darling death, we haven’t danced yet.

Velvet drapes of indigo hue,
hid the wreckage staged by you.
Golden spotlights, heavy lies,
Scripted kisses and practiced sighs.

The balcony held ghostly cheers
Haunted by memories of yester-year.
Your love, a scene of sweet deceit,
A rose left dying at my feet.

Final bow with trembling grace,
The curtains fall and so does my face.
Applause rang out; our final run,
Curtains drawn, and hearts undone.

I see you, love, in passing light,
A mirror image kept in the night.
Our glances dance, but never stay
Keeping your world a breath away.

You can’t be different; you're too near,
A mirror soul that draws me here.
Two stars adrift, but you're the sun
Making the shadows come undone.

We walk like lines that never bend,
Strangers still, but not the end.
If we could break the veil unseen,
Imagine how divine we’d be.

A grainy film, in shades of gray,
Where shadows dance and lovers sway.
The air is thick with smoke and sin,
As midnight calls, we both give in.

You looked at me with reckless eyes,
Like secrets hidden in the skies.
A kiss, a whisper, soft and slow,
But underneath, we both should know.

We laughed beneath a starless sky,
Where silver ghosts and dreams had died.
The frame was cracked, the focus blurred,
Yet in the silence, truth was stirred.

The reel spins fast, the cuts too sharp,
A promise lost in shadows' arc.
The aperture of love had closed,
Exposing all we never chose.

But then you turned, the truth was clear,
A plot twist I had always feared.
In the black-and-white, our colors bled,
Now I’m the one left lost instead.

The credits roll, but you're not here,
A fade to black, I disappear.
The film is over, all that's left,
Is me alone with love's regret.

Velvet echoes in these faded places,
Plastic smiles on porcelain faces.
Whiskey tears in crystal glasses,
Dead-eyed queens and faded masses.
And it’s eerie, but oh, it’s sweet;
My dying dreams feel most complete.
Masking my hurt behind the glamour,
No more dawn and no forever.
Hard to voice, too numb to break,
I'm dancing in circles putting the F in ache…

Our desires were chalk lines and strawberry wine,
A beautiful disaster lost somewhere in time.
Yellow tape fluttered where promises bled,
Broken glass glimmered like the words left unsaid.

Lipstick stained bottles tipped over the past,
Your hands left their mark, and Gods, did they last.
Velvet night violence hits sweetly under covers,
Choking the life out like an aggravated lover.

I wore my heartbreak like a diamond-cut jewels,
Dancing through wreckage addicted to you; like a fool.
You left me for dead in the heat of your crime;
But darling, destruction was truly sublime.

I curled in your love like a larva,
blind to the cage I was in.
You fed me sweet lies like nectar,
and I bloomed with the rot from within.

Spun myself in silk-built silence,
a tomb dressed up as a dream.
Your voice was a lullaby;
soft, slow, and serpentine underneath.

In darkness I shed who I was,
each memory molted and torn.
My bones turned to lace in the silence,
and my sorrow grew wings to be born.

Now I rise in the hush of the after,
light pouring through every vein.
What once broke me now blooms beneath me;
I'm a monarch born from the flame.

In winter’s grip, I lost my way,
A frozen heart, a sky of gray.
But deep beneath the ice and stone,
A quiet strength began to grow.

Then spring arrived on softened ground,
With buds of hope and birdsong sounds.
I bloomed in colors I’d never known,
From pain; a brighter self was sown.

The summer sun lit up my face,
I danced with joy in open space.
With every heatwave, storm, and breeze,
I learned to love with deeper ease.

And autumn breathed, “Let go" with grace,
Some dreams were never yours to chase.
In golden loss, I found my truth,
There’s beauty in outgrowing youth.

Even storms that split my skies
Left clearer light behind goodbyes.
Through every turn, between sky and sea,
The seasons shape the soul of me.

Here I am again in a room of haze,
Eyes lost in a lover’s maze.
Back in the smoke, where the silence bleeds,
Lipstick smeared on old misdeeds.

Here I go again, searchin’ the crowd,
Hopin’ your face might call me out loud.
But I know the truth I try to outrun,
One look at you and I come undone.

I touch a flame, pretend it’s love,
Kissing the pain I'm always thinking of.
Holding me close, I play the part,
There's no one like you breaking my cursed heart.

Now I haunt the places we once knew,
Red dress, cold stare, and a phantom view.
They all see smoke, and never came;
You were the bullet, but I took the blame.