In Framing - The Hotelier

You fell for the first option presented of new rebirth

You couldn’t see it but you thought you’d believe it

Since your soles cramping up have been swollen and sore

Your new shoes back then just don’t fit anymore

You retraced the same shape, cut up and re-sewn

When you felt abandoned, when you felt alone

And on New Years you resolved to make your chaos external

Duress of sickening kinds, a half year blacked-out of my mind

No string traced back to a place-marker alleviate

Erase failed attempts at obstructing machines

Got drained when the crutch became vampiracy

Bit off more than could chew and then swallowed it whole

I choked on your temper when you felt alone

And the sirens cry loudly

I am reflexive, I cry loudly

You put my picture in framing

Hung forever, left me strangling

Called me 'baby'

And with your nature reversed and our home as our cage

You caved and you asked «is this coming of age?»

As you climbed out the window, your face cold as stone

You lifted the towel, your wrist showed the bone

I held my breath in the ER, I swayed as I stood

I tried to stay steady to protect you the best that I could

You pretended to sleep the entire ride home

But I heard you crying when you felt alone