Book of the Unmentioned

The Manipulated

You said I was all
Building me up high
It is was all I thought I ever was
Up in sky, feeling so tall

In that veil you pulled over
I saw beauty, I saw hope
I imagined those four leaf clovers
Thinking that all was well
But i could even be told otherwise by the whole globe

You only appeared for yourself
Otherwise with the other watching eyes
This was every time I felt forgotten
Yet you came bounding toward me
Telling me that you felt rotten

To keep me in, you told me "our" goals
Goals like the stalks of the tree
Too high for you
Yet allegedly, not high enough for me

I looked at those trees with the hope of a child
Only to have woken up
From the slumber that you put me through
To have woken up, to see, that you bound me
Making me mild

I longed to get away
From this
From you
From all
You tried to stop me
With lies
Few truths
Actually, none at all

I had done it, escaping the pain
And found another opportunity
One that wouldn't be the same

It is open, unlike the cell you created
It is comforting, unlike the days I was ready
It is there, unlike your presence when I was needy
It is alive, unlike the way you made it toward me

You are gone
My new trees visible
You are gone
My heart is now intact
You are gone
I feel invincible
You are gone, you are gone, you are gone
Yet, I can never erase the pain you gave me
Never at all