Shrapnel

Lies

You learned long ago how to cast them

Now you don't even need to try

You bury them all behind you

They always come back to life

When the chimps escape their enclosure

They'll open the gates for the lions

And that lion was bound to come and bite you

He's found a prettier wife

Oh, if you had seen my side

You wouldn't look upon me so

Staying up for hours, waiting for his keys in the door

A shit show and a glass of wine

Is not enough to plug the hole

That he left on your heart when he left you to tend it alone

Now, though the years have softened the shrapnel

That made its home in my bones

You still moan in the rooms of my nightmares

Some lump of flesh in your own

How could you think that a child

Who could barely reach the top drawer

Could see what it was you were hiding

And then outgrow it?

But if I had seen your side

I wouldn't look upon you so

Staying up for hours, waiting for his keys in the door

A shit show and a glass of wine

Is not enough to plug the hole

That he left on your heart when he left you to tend it alone