How long it takes to smile
To forget your face, your name, your charm
How long it takes to laugh
To forget your envy, your words, your harm
The tears that dye my pillow black
The red that stains my eyes
The suffocating of my lungs
My heart overflowed with lies
The time that I spend grasping,
Gasping, for a single breath
Drowning, in a pit less river
Cut up, lethally, sliver by sliver
Tangled between fear and courage
Crossed between love or hate
Amongst the anger and betrayal
A choice between destiny and fate
And yet no matter how far I stumble
No matter how many wounds I scrape
Three words from your crooked lips
And I’m trapped, with no escape
Stuck, like a dog penned in their crate
Caught, like a bug in the spider’s web
Terrified, like a witch tied to a burning stake
Still human even at her utmost end
They say it takes time to heal
But it is that, I do not believe
The clock has moved it’s mighty hands
Now I beg you, set me free