Shedding skin

Through the strangers I’ve met,

My heart still can’t forget

You.

The games, the plays,

The blame, the chase,

The lust—

It was fun

Behind the dust.

People ask,

“When do you leave again?”

Like I don’t belong.

I ask them back:

“Isn’t it time to stop the run?”

Starting over again,

Losing pieces of me,

Through amber lenses,

I still can’t see.

I built a mansion

But someone else moves in...

Maybe this is the only way

To find the exit of my pain.

Citrine stones, Calvin bras,

Copper-spiraled rings—

Lost in forests, pools, and lies.

Lights off, storm out,

Your world seems hollow now,

And maybe...

I should unfollow.

Friends out,

I'm in,

With headaches and broken dreams.

It used to be

Electricity,

You called me a magnet—

For you, for you...

Starting over again,

Losing pieces of me,

Through amber lenses,

I still can’t see.

I built a mansion

But someone else moves in...

Maybe this is the only way

To find the exit of my pain.

No breaks, no sleep,

Mountains in between—

Still I’d drive, still I’d drive.

Studio floor, tabletop,

Don’t you stop—

'Til I lost myself in you...

Negatives drying,

Ceramics burning,

Flashbacks crying,

Bathroom sighing...

Rice and beans,

New country, new dreams...

Nothing’s ever as it seems...

Starting over again,

Losing pieces of me,

Through amber lenses,

I still can’t see.

I built a mansion

But someone else moves in...

Maybe this is the only way

To find the exit of my pain.

The only way...

To find the exit of my pain.