Your hazardous gaze and rough hands caught my waist
At that moment, my stars rearranged and my line of sight blurred
As the sky dimmed, I saw you shine brighter than anything that’s ever touched me
Basked in your eyes, I knew I’d be thanking you for as long as I can remember
Your sweet voice and vicious lies
Wrapped around my body tight as I cried throughout the night
And thanks to you I can never sleep right.
In my dreams and in real life, I’m screaming your name but you can never hear
Thanks to you I wish I could disappear
What’s the point of life if you’re not even here?
Thanks to you I’ve written and rewritten maudlin paragraphs I could only dream of sending
Repeating how badly I believed your promise of happiness unending
Your rose-coated lies and your one-day efforts
All scribbled in those lines, a weak attempt at comfort
Thanks to you I’m wishing back the past 7 months
When I thought I was heading for the sky, only to collapse into a stump
Progress dulled by your snow, iced from shoulder to toe
Thanks to you I know how to love someone without any strings attached
And how to manage feelings when someone says, relax
Thanks to you I realized I wanted drunk texts at midnight
Loud declarations of love and romantic gestures in plain sight
Thanks to you I had a love I thought I knew all too well
But I made a prison of my delusions and tossed the keys straight to hell
And thanks to you I also knew how deeply I could feel
How I could connect to love so blue yet so real
How could I fall down and lose my mind
Go wild by the hope that you were mine

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