pulled right up to your face
for insecurity is prebuilt
and in a well known place

i wonder,
if the changeable stormy seas
or the twisty adaptable tress
could ever have consumed me

emotions are like hope
both get bruised and battered
when you are let down
by those that matter

it was so claustrophobic
sometimes people do not feel right
i washed the clothes
of those in noble robes

in the lands where i dream
they lead from a distance
yet they are always near

even in their partial fame
they were different
and now they flicker like a flame

what else is there to do
i swapped cards for stickers
a friend for some glue
and still they bicker

i could not construct and institution
in which they could all stay
i could not save the situation
i had to watch it die

she is not the same
she has shared my life
but you were there,
when i needed a ray of light