I Braved Goodbye

I laid your sweater on my bed

bloody, stained a gamy red

the dread was never in my head

the sickness brought by what you said

And when you ran I followed view

denied the things I'd want from you

silenced that which bothered you

including faith down on that pew

I told the words, I told them whole

and laughed at all the time you stole

knowing there'd be no parole

of that which lives inside your soul

Caged, battered, silent, still

and here it is my tattered will

lonely at this window sill

no longer speaks without his pill

Confusion as the last goodbye

and rain came down into my eyes

did you think that I could cry

without my life just driving by

And then returned but you were late

a moment much too close to fate

there once was love where now is hate

and there you lay this drunken state

Whisper softly one last time

and share the pain that's yours and mine

the blood that trickles does define

the end of nothing ours sublime

I hold my breath cannot relax

to guard myself from your attacks

and as I lie here with my ax

Regret is questions left unasked

See me again in twenty years

a clouded memory of fears

magician like you disappear

and leave my blood to dripping here

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