Crashing Paper Airplanes

Circling me like a shark in open water, I wave my arms so someone sees And for so long you never bothered To see the huntress I can be. You said you’d always try to see eye to eye, But your irises have turned to black And in my own I stalked out every single lie And your facade begins to fade and crack. The runway lights are lit before you now To alight your lying eyes with blame And land your crashing paper airplane safely on the ground But you choose to go down with the flames. My body has become a vessel To carry me back to the shore. And when my feet touch the sand I begin to wrestle With how to give you less when you want so much more. Your body always craved something I couldn’t afford, Some kind of gold I saved for me And though I feel I’ve fallen on my own sword I take that gold and begin to flee. Far away I run with broken bones across the landscape The desert sand catches up with me Looking before me now I pull back the blackened drapes And you are nowhere to be seen. Are you hiding in my notebooks To see again when I am drunk with rain To kill the blinding blaze and drown out everything you took And mend the burning merciless pain. So go ahead and let your dirty wings give you lift And after that grab onto drag Because you will continue to crash your paper planes Until you burn yourself out with your own jetlag.