I’ll always treasure the naivety of the past we’ve shared
Our bodies grew much faster than our minds,
But together we got good at stopping time.
My teen angst drove me to hurt myself,
And I made you watch
Oh the pain I must have caused
But by staying around you saved my life
We were never meant to be lovers;
Just fellow late bloomers, who blossomed apart.
Watching my parents made me look for something destructive
And there you were
With all the characteristics of my mom
Familiarity of home
The geographic gap let to forced adulthood
And your rage exposed
I’m glad we left things when we did,
I doubt I’d survive another bloody war.
We were never meant to be lovers,
We just mirrored each other’s self destructiveness.
The spotlight burned in the room when we were together
And we played our parts
And I wore an imaginary tv screen
So you never got to touch my heart
We were never meant to be lovers;
Our egos fed off each other, and died overweight.
I thought I’d seen it all when you first walked in
But you shut me up.
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