I CANNOT SAVE YOU

Confusion exceeds its limits in my head. I can’t let it control me

The visions prove accurate; you are who you seem to be

I close my eyes to the truth because I don’t wanna see

The darkness staring point blank back at me

I shiver from the coldness I feel within my soul

Knowledge of the sickness is all you need to know

You choose not to see the things I show to you

Yet, I can’t carry the weight of the burden for you

Nor can I stick around to watch you crumble and fall

You cannot learn to walk before you learn to crawl

It’s my own fault, my own chaos in the making

Although I choose not to keep my heart from breaking

The choice in the matter is mine and mine alone

Remembering that all things reaped will soon be sewn

To stay still in the madness is only suicide in the mold

Death not to me, but the death of your own

Tearing away from the aching feeling I cannot escape

Is what eats at me and devours me today

It cannot be that crucial for you to slowly fade

That you cannot face tomorrow without using today

If it’s that necessary to destroy your self that way

Then I remove myself for you to go your own way

Pushing yet pulling, not knowing what to choose

One thing is for certain, I CANNOT SAVE YOU

Goodbye is not forever, only until you decide

Whether you want to live or do you choose to die?

Author's Notes/Comments: 

this was written for an ex boyfriend who is still in addiction and i had to let him go in order to save myself...

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