Safe in your apathy,
I doubt you'll ever know,
The scars you leave behind,
Deep on my soul they go.

My life you claim for free,
My dreams you race to take,
This nightmare I endure,
Even though I'm wide awake.

Frozen smiles in picture frames,
Cameras capture an eternal lie,
Photographs won't ever show,
Any of my desperate cries.

You'll never know how it feels,
To have to learn to hate,
The one you thought was yours,
I'll learn to call  it fate.

I will be held together,
Through guts and will,forever,
All of your careful cracks,
Will not undo me ever.

You chip away at nothing,
There's nothing left to break,
Why do you say you're winning,
If there's nothing left to take.

Revel in your victory now,
Until the day your soul screams,
Forgiveness will be sought then,
By you who took my dreams.

Or open your eyes and see,
What it is you do to me.

That the brightest eyes you ever did see?
Look closer, just a while,
See how they share a face?
With the saddest, broken smile.