Take it as far back as you want to.
Anything you need to do
to find that sweet excuse
and absolve yourself
of the guilt in your veins.
No.
Don’t hurry.
I’ll wait.
I’m looking forward to seeing
the look on your face
as your mind travels back
into the past,
and all you find
is miles
and miles
of black.
You have lived your life
under the finger
of one big emotional trigger.
You drown your demons,
drug your angels,
fucked anything that moved,
and laughed at danger.
But now,
as you survey
the crumbling borders
of your sanity,
you realize
that there is no escape
from the shackles of responsibility.
And those regrets
will be the chains you bear in Hell.
The trapped look in your eye
says that you know the Devil well
and you have felt his hand
upon your heart.
But do you understand
that this could be the start
of some new thing?
Right now.
The keys lay in reach.
You should be the one person
I don’t have to teach
about falling
and getting back up again.
Just lift your eyes a little higher
this time, my friend
and then,
I see it on your face.
You know this is the time
and the place
to escape that shame,
and hate,
and pain.
So much power in a name.
DJR – 2023
