Inch By Inch

And love by its surrender in its power play may come to break its scaffold from your heart Inch by inch and by love they are picked apart and then to the bare bones of love reduced to silence and seen by sufferance all their weakness and how it makes you strong all those weaknesses your strength depends upon Somehow better someway stronger game play in the game for longer and brow beaten by love falls onto helplessness only to cherish them as they are bullied into powerlessness But you have no foothold in your permanence the refugees of your belligerence walk away with all your self control and you the self righteous defendant they are then the burglars of your soul And love by its surrender in its power play may come to break its scaffold from your heart and in such strength you the pretender by their weaknesses have torn your world apart Inch by inch and by love they are picked apart