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Something tells me to shut the doors

Close off the world to its own insanity

And leave me to my own

Let the whole world just go to hell

While I live in my own.



You don’t try to understand me

And I wonder sometimes

If you ever did

You’ve left me a stranger to you

Building nothing

Yet expecting everything to be there for you.



I don’t want to let you inside me anymore

I don’t want that hurt and emptiness

To pervade the existence that is merely that –

Just

Existing

But never truly living.



Can I push you out of my life

Without breaking my own heart?

Will you let me be my on my own

Falling separately

From all that you want me to be

But that I never will.



August 29, 2003