I was drowning,

My screams were just bubbles carried to the surface

And I was silenced

And so silent

Until you were my light at the end of a tunnel

You gave me your hand, I took it, and I surfaced

I was breathing and I had a voice

But that was so silent

You were my light, my everything,

But now you're my nothing

And you're just absence of who you used to be

You're a graveyard

You're a graveyard

You're a graveyard harboring the way you made me felt

You just give me phantoms,

Distant memories of the air tasting fresher by your side,

The sky having more stars,

The world harboring more opportunities,

Your eyes are phantoms of soaring planets and galaxies

Now they're just a pit of lies that you told

And if I stare too long I'll fall for every single one of them again

You're a graveyard of dead promises,

Dead plans,

Dead aspirations,

You used to be so much hope to me

But now you're nothing

And slowly, so slowly, your eyes lost their sparkle,

And slowly, so slowly your jump lost its lilt

And slowly, so slowly your smile lost its lust

And slowly, so slowly, I realized you didn't change at all

But it was me falling out of love with you

I became aware of the shards I was standing on

Shards of distant promises, and lies,

And interests, and stories,

And jealously, and shards of my lust for you

Now you're bland, moving on to your next victim until they realize

you're just horrid lies

In a lovely disguise

But I need to thank you,

Because now I know

The next time I'm drowning

Or falling

Or can't speak

Or when I'm silenced

I won't scream,

But I'll pull my own hand out

And I'll romanticize the own glitter in my eyes

Because to myself, I can never tell a very good lie

Other than loving you, of course.