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 Aug 1 Kalliope
OnLithium
To suffer after pain
Is to simply experience
Pain in suffering
I constantly bring myself
To think about everything.

What hurts me
has hurt me
will hurt me
 Aug 1 Kalliope
OnLithium
Lay my cards on the table
Only to see yours are better
Stretch my bloodied hands out
Only to see yours are clean
Hide in the cemetery
Only to see you
 Aug 1 Kalliope
OnLithium
You say things
I don't understand
Tell me I'm free to go
But still under your hand
You do things
I question and you lie
Tell me I'm free to go
Only way I'll be free is if I die
 Aug 1 Kalliope
OnLithium
At that point in life
I don't have a will
But I do have suicide notes
For each person I love
Close enough.
 Aug 1 Kalliope
OnLithium
The feeling is fleeting
And what's collapsing the ceiling
The moments I've lost
And the friends that I've tossed
Love that won't last
And memories of the past
The waves keep on breaking
And the world keeps on taking
I'd play a pitiful little song
And the notes would be dead wrong
 Aug 1 Kalliope
OnLithium
You make it difficult
To write about loss
And tragedy
And heartbreak
And all the other things
I start writing something
You just smiling
Just looking in my direction
Is enough to wash it away
You ask what I'm writing
I answer honestly
And say nothing
Because what I was going to
Isn't as beautiful and joyous
As you
 Aug 1 Kalliope
OnLithium
most aim to be calm
not let the world
affect every aspect of life
its not a bad plan
i just prefer to be
a little more like tea
steeping in silence
You think
you left her
somewhere
safe—
a version
trimmed by
loss and cost
resigned
from a rage
that won't
leave you alone

But she's not
so gone

She lives
in what
you are—
the pause
before reply
the way
you lean away
when asking why

She learned
to shed
the ache—
not
what made
you kind
you were
already kind

What pain
erased
was never
the heart
only
its outline

And true love
knows
you are enough—
you always
have been

It's possible—
to keep
the warmth
without the burn
to be the flame
without the fuel
of pain
Just come back we'll figure it out together
[Verse 1]
There's a part of her that tends the clock
wants to freeze the world before it breaks
a child with eyes too wide to defend
hoping time might pass her by

She curls up safe to avoid the fall
I see her there—I love her all
not for who she used to be
but for the way she still believes

[Verse 2]
There’s a part that wakes and breathes just fine
laughs like pain was never near
she lives in moments light and clear
unburdened with thoughts of fear

She lets the sunlight touch her skin
and I don’t ask what hides within
I take her joy however brief
and savor her quiet relief

[Pre-Chorus]
She is not too much to hold
she is not too sharp to soothe
every version she becomes
I will still choose

[Chorus]
I love all of her
the girl who hides the one who runs
the one who freezes when it's done
the fire that fights to stay alive
each part of her is still just right
and I won't walk away
I won’t ever walk away

[Verse 3]
There’s a part that flinches at a sound
who looks for exits scans the ground
fear behind her worried face
I know the shape of that escape

She doesn’t have to say it loud
I’ll read her silence in the crowd
I’ll stay right here I’ll keep her close
and let her breathe when she needs it most

[Bridge]
And then the one who won’t retreat
who guards her heart with sharpened teeth
she’d burn it all before she breaks
I see the love behind the ache

[Final Chorus]
I love all of her
the child who froze to stay alive
the one who smiles just to survive
the fear the flame the ones that hide—
she’s whole in every single side
and I won't walk away
I won’t ever walk away

[Outro]
She doesn’t have to choose which one to be
I see them all
I’ll take them all
and I stay always
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