remember when You said
yOu’d be here forever
remember when i believed?
now i’m picking Up the pieces
that once built a paper house
built by your promises
perhaps it stooD too tall
and not enough
to stand the test of tIme
it fell apart
when you slammeD the door too hard
oN your way ouT
just like everyone else
who proMise mE heAven
and eveN bring me a pIece of iT
and then quickly turns stale;
a taste of hell.

perhaps the fault is mine,
no, the mess is definitely mine
cause when you swore “forever”
i should have asked
how long exactly
“forever” meant to you
so that i wouldn’t have to
break my heart open
to make room
for all the “love” you said you’d give

now,
even those very pieces
scattered and ruined into a million little ones
and i sift through the broken shards
trying to recollect what’s left of me
hoping to patch them up together
with all the love that i would have showered on you
in hopes that i may become whole again

and i should have known
not to hold on too tight
to something that i knew damn well
was slipping away
like water
right out of my hands

the thought that someone else
now knows you the way that i do
beats me
till i’m black and blue
but every now and then
i’ll press down on the bruises
just to see if they still hurt
i hope i never lose them though
for they are indellible marks
that i loved and i lived

just know
if you would have asked
what forever meant to me
i would tell you
it meant that i would be with you
till the end of time
and even in the apocalypse
of earth’s end.