This is for every woman
that cries herself to sleep
that lies alone in bed at night
that stays awake, unable to sleep
...
You say that you love me,
You say that you're here,
You say that I'm not alone,
That I don't have to be anymore...
...
Who am I
I don't know
I know what I am,
what labels others apply to me
...
I reside in her heart
yet I live alone
in the shadowed past
in the uncertain future
...
Beginning of a new life,
Ending of the old
Security found with another,
Fear of loss
...
For so long I buried and denied
the anger that dwelt within
for all the horrid deeds done to me
that which I could not repress
...
I went for a walk with my love
down to an old vacant lot she took me
littered, and broken up
it made me sad,
...
Tell me of pain, what you know of it.
Is it to be feared, or guarded against
like a tangible foe?
Do you seek it, or merely accept it
...
Unseen I stand alone
watching, waiting
silently worshiping
the goddess of my heart
...
When I think of how life used to be,
how I always hid in the shadows,
letting it obscure my existence.
I look at everything you have given me:
...