Remembrance -

Love went cold, buried you

Starved yourself to feed the wound

I mourn the burden I refused

I forced your ghost to guide me through

I doubt I’ll ever get you out of my head

But I need to dig and to dig enough to let the love, to let my love back in

Apology has lost all meaning, and my reform was way past due

My potential is, and might always be, poison to you

Will I ever return from wayward pursuits?

Remembrance, the bitter fruit

Carry your guilt, it can’t carry you

Took root to never bloom

Tangled weeds to strangle you

I mourn the burden I refused

It’s not my place to guide you through

I can no longer blame the dead for my regret

Or let them guide my living hands

If this is penance, I welcome it

Will I ever return from wayward pursuits?

Remembrance, the bitter fruit

Carry your guilt, it can’t carry you

Sunken eyes saw the corruption of my youth

I am not a lover, I am the lesson I never learned

Now watch me flail in the death throes of my lechery