a year ago today
I sealed up all my love
cast it down the river
and bid it never come back
yet here I am again today
at the river’s edge
falling in slow motion
at the mere sight of you

because you, you
make the pain wash over again
love’s broken shards
pressing into my skin
I am drowning
I am falling
but the current sweeps me up
and deposits me on shore

at the river’s edge

and clenched in my fist
all your broken promises
all those lies you had to tell
the tears that spilled like rain
onto parched earth
that butterfly feeling
that ache in my throat
the feel of your hand on mine

because I, I
was nothing to you
and you were everything to me
so I sealed it up tight
bidding it never come back
bidding it drift off elsewhere
yet here it is within my hand
and what am I to do?

at the river’s edge