Better Love - Longfellow

I was empty

Hoping you would fill me up

Cut you open

Took it all so ravenous, you’re not enough

I was feeble

Hollow-bodied as you led

Like an actor

Reading lines I’d never felt

I feel them now

If you need a better love

If you need one

I can understand it, I could never give enough

If you need a better love you deserve one

I can comprehend it

I have given everything

Now it’s gone

Now it’s gone

Turned to tinder

Struck a match and came to flame

The meat market opened doors to new dead ends

And I’m ashamed