i never intended for this to happen but the pain brought it upon me and it was my only defense to build this wall brick by brick each painful memory every broken promise all his spoken words they bind my prison closing me in keeping you out never allowing me to feel again to know things can change that it's not all the same and with my hands i scratch at my past to see the light that you bring pushing aside what was stone by stone breaking apart this solitude inside me to see what it is that you offer to feel you allowing you to feel me attempting to see that it is not the past that chooses but me (hrodriguez - 1999) |