The War You Wage

Your feelings about me are Visions clouded by memories of your past Lovers and haters and all things greater You remain guarded And dictated by fear Keeping me near…enough But not too close The war you fight is with yourself, not with me But can won with grace and ease by surrendering to your own insecurities I can promise you one thing… Keeping me at arm’s length will only prolong the inevitability Of you suffering through this Lonely And drowning in self-pity I will not go down with you, NO I will fight and push with all might to prove That you have nothing to lose And everything to gain By opening your heart again The valve so tightly closed, so closely guarded A soldier standing so strong Yet so broken hearted that you can’t even identify the real enemy. But we both know it isn’t me So you fight a war within yourself whole-heartedly believing That it is the only way, you wage the battle everyday Until you are bare knuckled and bleeding and bruised Until your soul is weary and every last drop of strength has been used Until your vision is clouded by memories of your past And the way things were Until your vision is clouded by memories of her Lovers and haters, blind to all things greater And once again, you are dictated by fear Wishing only that you had held her near Wishing only to surrender