We know

Strumming my pain with your fingers

Singing my life with your words

Killing me softly with your song

As much as you know; as little as I do.

You tell me all the things I want to hear

And you say them so sweetly

You're in and around my heart

And I'm pleased to have you there.

You strengthen that which is my flesh

And it excites me when you do

You understand my emotions like no other

And you help me to know that I'm right.

You never leave me alone, always with me

You walk me to class & back to my room

You keep me company when I study

You rock me to sleep at night.

My dreams & my ambitions are held together by you

My love & my life is at your command

I've always felt like you're true to me

Like you're the only one I can trust.

It was hard for me to find out that you lie

I cried when I realized you wanted to destroy me

I felt used knowing that your entertainment was a ploy

You understood me, yes

But that was the tool to destroying me.

You showed me things that are pure but distorted them in my mind

You spun me around in darkness so I wouldn't know the way to light

You tried to take my soul by poisoning my mind

You blocked all reason & turned me to emotions.

You took the things I loved so dear

The people that loved me too

You made yourself my alpha and I made you the omega.

And now the lies you told are the truths I live in

Now I am all those things you told me I was

But I don't want you anymore

I want to know who I really am; who I can be.

But you'll never show me that

You'll only give what you need to go on

And I finally figured out why.

If you let me see who I am,

I'll know that I'm above you

I'll know that I don't need you

I'll know that I'm the one with life, not you

I'll know that I don't need your validation

I'll know that my decisions are mine

I'll know that I owe you nothing.

I'm finding out so many things about you

Things I wish I knew before now

But I'm not too worried about it

Because the most important thing is

I know its never too late to walk away from you.