you turned your back on me
after i opened up so much for you

you'd see i was always there
if you'd only turned around

but your eyes are averted
as you stand on your own
and your warm embrace has dissolved
into a cold and empty look

no longer will i play your game time after time, standing in line
you keep your melancholy
my support is gone
i withdraw from your twisted affection
i withdraw from your traps and snares

i withdraw into my corner
indifferent now,
to you,
not here

how do i erase these marks you've made
your barbed hooks have left me swollen
to remove the staines
you've left on me
i must cleanse myself
of this emotion

my heart lies broken
by words unspoken
to live is to suffer
through hurt and regret
the pain is all i know

a tortured heart
a functionless mass gone cold
numbed by the pain of the world
now indefferent to all emotion

your presence makes me sick
the fire inside has been extinguished
the pain of the burning is all that's left

so i embrace it,
this suffering lie

a functionless mass lies broken
it ceases to pump
lacerated, a worthless lump lies cut

now form my scars
my torn feelings now turn to scars
a crust, a callous a shield to hide from the pain

the emotion once evoked in me
no longer burns
the pain has made me immune
a hole, where once was warmth
now in a icy void
sits my tormented heart
that you've destroyed

i withdraw from laughing
i withdraw from feeling
i withdraw from your tender touch
i withdraw from the pain of this flesh
i resign myself to earth and stone

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