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Overgrown

You say your room is a confinement 
where you’re forced to have tea parties with your greatest enemy; your thoughts 
But looking through your window from the overgrown path,
You room looks like a palace to me
And as far as I can see, there’s no crusade out to take your land back
The only force driving the dichotomy of nirvana vs. under siege, is you
So do yourself a favor and lay your swords to rest until the final cue 
Fall back into bed and thank your posters hanging over head 
That your innocence has worked for and not against you 
Conferring with coffins to abstain at any cost 
Only for me to realize
That I didn't find you 
‘cause you were never lost 
Countering-protesting the coroner
Tracking my lucky stars like an astronomer 
Only for me to suffer through stuttering speech
Of how I never really found you 
cause you were never really lost 
Look into the center of my black circles growing wider
And see the portal to hell I’ve absorbed inside 
I’ve never had so much hate in my heart
I’m grappling with the absence of you more than ever 
But I never really found you 
cause you were never really lost 

Copyright © Matthew Bailey

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