All that Remains

Of Forgotten and Felt

I think I forgot

Forgot how to love you

Forgot to give you

What you deserve

But this is not the end you were looking for

I know because you told me

And I decided to ignore it

Too caught up in my own problems

That's the problem with ignoring things

I may be delicate and easily broken

But there are others who have no way of getting stronger

And we let them suffer

As for me, I am no different

Remorse is null when it changes nothing

And the waterfall we kissed behind was as easily forgotten

As the knowledge that air is not nothing

Your young mind must have latched on

Too scared of what life would be if it felt no one cared

But you missed those who do

Admits the blurring tears in you r eyes

I'm afraid I cannot love you

No matter how much you wish me too

And these days will carry on

As I try and recall the last time I cared

All I am now, is someone who can't love

Too trapped in my head

Too eager for the future

To pay attention to the world around as I whiz by

I have tried to stop and smell the roses

As they have said

Bat all I do in this garden is see how many times

I can prick myself on a single flower

Turn these roses upside-down

And you may finally see what I see-

What grows from the bush,

The perspective from the ground

And now how can I love you

When all I see are thorns?

Forever yours, you say, handing me the sweet-smelling flower

But I can only watch the blood that stains your fingertips