Checkered Flags

waving the end of the emptiness

Usher in the new beliefs

Feeling just so lost in this.

The pain stifled underneath

Rip it out with disordered strength

Drive me from my knees

Feel something while the times still bent

Rid me far of this disease

Look away, don’t look at me

I don’t want you to know-

Feeling is ever sold and cheap

And you have front seats to the show.

You know that there’s so much more to me

Than what your iron heart will bare.

When days do end and I fall asleep

Do you wish I was still there?

Do you care or is that a wishful thought

That the monkey’s paw grasps tight?

To spare love where it’s sparse and naught

Is that selfish, wrong, or right?

To invite someone to the pain

Where heartache and darkness slumber

To only say they loved in vain

Still forever enchained to each other

Alone and depressed

Help me out of this mess.

The light I beseech so brightly

Can only shine

If your words do incline

And you stop holding it all so tightly.