Tell Me Not To Care
Everywhere I go, you’re still there.
They say all’s fair in love and war
And before, I believed it,
But deception is a wake up call
And I’ve received it.
Love and hate,
How you manipulate the past to suit you.
I can’t even tell if what I remember is true
Because your lies and facts are so intermixed,
Like flowers and weeds in a dirty garden.
You’re a constant reminder that
Life offers no guarantee
And no happy ending.
You keep bending the story until
Even my friends don’t know what to think.
Tell me to come back
And I’d do it.
Swallow my pride-
No, wait,
I won’t put myself through it again.
You’re the cigarette left in the pack
After I quit.
The booze left in the bottle
After the liver’s gone to .
And now I’ve accepted it.
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