Under new skies
You were hiding
A familiar lie
A youth inviting

Seventeen
Could you be all I need?
Bring me love
And I will bring you kindness

The knives and swords that cut me up
They will piece me back again
Are you one of them?
A shining blade of one-way love

If we commit, could we pretend?
Could I know safety after all?
I'd feel better then
Complete me, I'll come bat for you

The hidden card
Masks the false tone of my words
And though I lied
I adored you

On finding out
The words that open me like knives
Kiss my mouth
So I can taste your fervour

Come find me
Bring me to the light
Forever lost
My fatal flaw
File the edges down
Commit to this, now breathing

Now estranged
I follow suit
Heart now caving in both sides
Burn the evidence
Of this dark path I'm leading

Abusing you to help my mind
I am backed against the wall
I don't love you now
You only were my healing

Now that I find myself back here
I'm reminded what you were
I am sorry now
I only wanted health for you

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Salient
I commit myself to no one
Impotent
I cannot trust my fears

In the end
We will only break apart
Bury it
I don't need it anyway

I cannot love myself
Banish instinct and respite
I can't convince myself
Why can't I love?

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And hoping now
I am free
And finding out
If they could love me