You Can Run Now

Freedom. Oh you can run now, I'm setting you free So for once in your life, accept gratefully Ignore every time I proclaimed in the past My arms open wide will, again, be the last I said that before I won't say it anymore I'd mean what I say, then you'd knock at my door I'd open it up, let you in, let you lie, let you Sleep in my arms hoping dawn won't come by But morning did come with the realisation Your eyes spoke a tale through a brief hesitation Tsunami of regrets and self preservation But at long last I've healed, I'm a brand new creation Awash with tranquility, peace I never knew that Exists beyond chases and captures from you Stood still for too long and in sunk the teeth You leeched at my neck, you wouldn't let me breathe But those where the days I was happy to die for I'd rather you kill me than leave me to cry. A poisoned nostalgia begins to creep in then Proceeds to inject itself under my skin How the tables have turned, I've become the snake The skin you infected has begun to flake I'm shedding the moments, the heartbreak, the lust The love and the hate now united as dust So hard to accept this was never meant to be So go, you can run now, I promise you're free. Jodie Williams for The secondhand emotion contest 13 Jan 2012