You and Me

By your side

being all this while,

I have seen the walls of hell up close.

I know you're not what you seem,

there's a cage behind that pretty smile.

Oh so deep - the secrets that you keep.

Something so warm about you,

the way you've made this purgatory your home.

I will be there,

when you remember and when you don't.

when you care and when you pretend you don't.

when you forget years of love in minutes of anger.

But I will be there,

for one can see no stars with no darkness.

And some days darker than others, some bruises lasting longer than others,

I will accept it all.

I look out the window but I'm still trapped inside.

Following you into the dark,

I run into my own catastrophe.

For anyone can love light.

It is loving darkness that takes courage.

You don't get used to the suffocation,

You die.

And until I don't, I will be there

- by your side.