Stretch your muscles

They’re tight from last night

You’re an aching soldier 

With a new day to fight

There are already wrinkles gathering at your eyes

After hearing your story, I can’t say I’m surprised

These days the sun only mocks you

Each time you’ve thought you put it to sleep

Each time you told the dark a secret

You’ve no longer got a secret to keep

Button up your coat

and weigh yourself with arms

You haven’t got a choice but to go

And since you’ve barely even got a heart

It shouldn’t matter what they do to you out there.

And my hands betray my heart

On a daily basis

It wouldn’t be this hard

If the mirror didn’t have so many faces

But I push you out the door

The cold standing on my neck

I don’t want you anymore

Nor do I want this regret

That’s been pushing through my mind

Always swimming toward the surface

I’ve been gone all this time

But these words are worthless