[ Authentic ]

I couldn’t survive

A pretending love

Where you’re never good enough

And always being judged

Trying to keep your peace

Choosing to bite your tongue

Even when ice and fire

Burns you just because

 

Now some may ask you how

How you let it go so long

How you stayed within the toxin

Of another person’s wrongs

But there isn’t a real answer

It’s not like you were strong

Just waiting and hoping

For the light to finally dawn

 

And it would never rise

And it would never shine

The way you hoped it would

In some manner of time

Just swallowing the anguish

All while trying hard to find

That everything would be better

And we would be just fine

 

If there’s one thing love knows

It’s how to sacrifice

It can put its life on hold

Or let it be paralyzed

It would release its soul

Just to greet its own demise

And do it all again

If the chance ever arrived

 

Because love doesn’t seek its own

It’s not a thing so petty

It is filled to the brim

Not running empty

No needs in demand

It is willing and ready

To share of itself

When the world is turning deadly

 

And far too often

As you may have well learned

That death is the response

The world often returns

And You could let it change you

And no longer draw concern

Yet love speaks in silent resonance

To what your heart truly yearns

 

You refuse to live by feelings

You want to live by faith

For love is that element

Love is that place

Love is the form

The essence and shape

That your entire being

Holds longing which to take

 

Love was not made to survive

It was made to expose

Cracking and breaking

And drawing you close

Changing your life

Transforming the soul

Becoming authentic

In a world of false hope

 

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