Empty Space

Tell me, if I swear to be honest -

Honestly, would you promise to be kind?

Echoes of old memories

Echoes I don't want to find

Make believe it was for the best

Pretend it doesn't affect things anymore

Tormented with anxious attachments -

You traced insecurities into my core

Swore to be honest, but I lie to myself

Pretending you didn't see

All the manipulation and pressuring -

Claiming it was all for the love of me

Empty space is all that should be left now

Growing solid and secure

Really, what's accumulated -

Echoes of all the reasons to feel unsure

Why can't I just forget?

Sometimes, somehow, I do

Old echoes falling silent 

Listen, really - I'm over none of it but you

I swore, so here I am, in honesty 

Do you think even for a moment you ever kept your promises to me?

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The Empty Space Between Us

The Empty Space Accumulated

Sieve

Sifting through past thoughts

Picking apart each memory

To justify today's emotions

They come in waves to toy at me

Did I always feel this way

Or did I convince myself later on

Did each thing matter quite so much

Or did I raise them with the dawn

All of life is perspective 

It changes day by day

Altering the past

Silently fading old thoughts away

Trying to decide what to think

Trying to remember who I was before

Trying to keep everything

While trying to be so much more

Trying to make sense

Out of ever shifting memories 

Trying to find something solid 

The truths bend in the breeze 

All of life is perception 

Trying to show you through my eyes

How all of it is sieving chaos

Lost in endless skies