Reaching For Daydreams

You need to let go
You're forever reaching for a daydream

Days turn to weeks
...To months
Of wasting your heart
Falling in love with fairy tales
Holding on to an ice sculpture of hope
Through all its frozen beauty
It melts to dripping disappointment
Somehow you find inspiration
To write bridges of excuses
To keep your feet dry

Why don't you see it's all lies?

I'm there when you fix your hair
Choose your clothes
To incite desire
Just in case he looks your way

And

I'm there at days end
When you think you're alone
Your smile drops and shatters

Your lipstick won't hide those cracks much longer

I hear those silent screams
When you gasp for breath
And claw at your flesh
Through tears of desperation

Trying to understand why you're unlovable

I try to hold you
Whisper 'You're beautiful'
but you don't want to hear those words from me

You get so lost in your loneliness
Your need to be adored

Your mind is cruel

Maybe if you were skinnier
So
You starve
Then
You feel guilty
So
You slash
Then
You feel ugly
So
You cry

I'm banging on the window
Begging you to stop

But all you want
Is for him to see you
To notice you
Maybe to smile

You need to let go
why don't you see it's all lies?
Because your lipstick won't hide the cracks much longer
You're beautiful
But your mind can be cruel
Please listen to me banging on the window

























Sweetheart,
Listen to your reflection