The Blood & The Bones

You asked how I had been

And I thought to say that I’d been

Looking at the same 2 stars each night

And pretending they were your eyes

That I’d cried myself to sleep unforgiven

More nights than a heart could handle

That I had dug and dug

Through piles of dirt and layers of me

Only to discover that it’s too much

For anyone, even myself

That I felt promises would never be real

From your lips or the lips of others

That it took days and days and days to see

That I had truly been discarded

That, now, I mostly feel sorry for you

Because you play the game to lose

And what is lost is truly priceless

Because it’s the broken that love the hardest

Yes, there were 10,000 letters on my lips

That had been weighted and waiting

For you to make your way back and ask me

And I almost gave them away

But, unlike my heart, I kept them

And just said that I’d been fine.

LL.