Ignore me, as the wind ignores shaking branches
Carrying the nest of young wings, not yet able to fly
Abandon me, as naturally as the shore lashes sand

Never, for one moment, look back at what once was

"The past is the past for a reason," a voice replays in my head. "Leave it there."

But you swore of rocking chairs and wrinkled hands, intertwined
Just to escape the weight of my concrete burdens upon you
Loosen the chains around your feet, while tightening the noose of my neck
While pain evaporates through your pores, like a single snowflake
In the brightest, most potent heat of summers past

Talk to me of love, while two hands grip the gritty knife behind your back

In due time, you promised, everything gets easier

Well... maybe the minute hand forgot me, because
I cannot stop the reel inside of my mind
And every frame is of you

The same script runs through my ears, embeds itself into my dreams
Taking up residence there, when I never allotted the space
And when it comes time to wake, I refuse 
To leave it all behind again
In another world
In another fiber of my brain
When all I wanted was for it to be real

Real.
Well, it was to me.

Shame on me, for ever believing a single syllable from your lips

Yet here I stay, living in fairytales of yesterday
Odds and ends of my heart scatter around this place
And just so you know
It has never felt like home

Unease, each time I think I hear you calling my name
From the balcony, from the rooftop
From the doorway, through the halls

Perhaps it was just the leaking faucet, 

Dripping in time to my muted heartbeat

Life, for me, is a waiting game
Silence by bright screens
"Even I don't want to be with myself, how could I expect you to?"
And after the dust settles, these holes in the wall will remain
Where nails once were
Some pictures still hang, but I cannot bear to steal a single glance

Even though the sugar of your words left a burn mark on my tongue
I could not help but to drink your praise, salt-water for the parched
Or a gulp of briny sea, when all I needed was a single gasp of air

Air
How I long for its taste still
Ever since you stole it, straight from my parted mouth

Still, I had a feeling this end would come

Made sure I kept my distance, until you charged at my iron walls
Effortlessly slipping through the only crack I left unfilled
Breaking down my only armor, as you clamored away
But did you do it... just because you could?

As time passes through my fingers, like water, still I try to
Cup my hands together, keep you whole
Hold you fervently, while you burn me

As you rip the remnants of me, I'll
Kiss the claws that tear through my flesh... but your lips only move when lying