Your Casualty
A poem on a relationship
I only want you when I can’t feel my face
I only need it when I don’t know my place
I’m only with you when I need it
And I feel it
Running through me like a movie
You’re my theatre I can’t pass through
I only love you when I can’t remember
All of the nightmare that you can’t filter
I only came to when I need you
And you weren’t there
While I was ensnared in a prison
Of which you made for me
Albeit financially
Now the drugs have left my system
Full speed
I can see the sun shining brightly
Illuminating all the truths that you hid from me
When we’d stay up late for infinity
Expressing loves and hiding hates
You’re telling me that we’ll celebrate
Our thirtieth not our big mistakes
Nor the feelings that you throw in my face
Built upon a ground wobbly and fake
But then the drugs come back into my veins
I feel the pull of that siren’s ring
Melodies of deceit and brutality
That’s meant for me
And I can see so plainly
That baby
You’re not so good for me
But the song you sing
It’s blinding me
I can’t free myself
From this dream
I’m know you won’t let me be
Till the blood is drained out of me
And you’re standing there completely free
From all of life’s casualties
Serenity will set me free
But now I’m just your Casualty
