I sit here driving myself to insanity
Fretting over changing what has yet to happen
As past phantoms breathe down my neck
I lay awake to whimper helplessly
For one so close, you feel so far
Though I know pain once dulled alters the absence
I scramble to hold on to what’s already there
Weep over losing what’s never been lost
Reminded of torment once thought long fled
I decry all hold if may have over my heart
Denying that heartbreak’s cruel revenants
Revile me yet more with each step to new love
Their odious words are known false, yet ring true
Memories manipulate any scrap of dismay
Until I can’t breathe, suffocated by irrationality
I refuse to drive away what I hold dear
Though demons plague me with falsehoods
That eclipse the truth displayed to me
I want to believe that after fighting forever
Happiness has shared its blessing with me
But, locked in a chokehold of apprehension
I can’t bring myself to enjoy the treasure
Dangling in my dreams, though there alone
Leave me, memories that twist my mind
Let me to know what I’ve actually found
If gone, let it be gone, though of its own devices
For I will not allow you to use me as a tool
Against what I’ve sought for so long.