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all of this time i should have known, but we buried our hopes in our throats. |
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and though it spared us from honesty, it could not deny anything else. |
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after the air cleared and the anger left our bodies, we slept more soundly. |
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we slept more soundly! |
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on denton, where you realized the full weight of what you had done, you felt ashamed for the first time. |
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but still refused to admit that you were wrong! |
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i swore i would not carry your weight for you anymore when, at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself. |
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but in the time you were making up your mind, we still held our breath. |
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so history repeats, and the feeling that i will one day wake an old and empty man only drives me harder. |
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even if you will not sacrifice your youth, it will grow to resent you. |
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like a body of water, it will yield only to entrenched earth. |
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i swore i would not carry your weight for you anymore when, at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself. |
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but in the time you were making up your mind, we already knew. |