Flickering Light

One-sided love thought I did more than enough

One-sided love kept you above

Died of thirst, my parched white dove

Lying lifelessly on the irksome road where we rove

Aphrodite over us got washed away by the baleful flood

When you threw me away like a used earbud

I recall sitting with your mom on that rusted bench

Promising to stick around with her, holding her hand in a lovable clench

Those butterflies of love, flying around my eyes, leading my sight

To your glistening gleamy face that'd sparkle my darkest night

But turbulence came along, fight after fight

You wished I was different, I wished it too

Played with my emotions, made me a flickering light

Elated me once then frightened me that same melancholy, cataclysmic night

You're one of my few mistakes, I could never rewrite

Told you bout' my aspirational dreams and mystical ambitions

You played with my emotions with your endless suspicion

Instead of asking if I was cheating or not,

What if you gave me a warm hug and understood my miserable condition?

What if you asked me bout' the time you weren't around

Instead of bashing me with thoughts of apprehension and if my love had drowned?

Thought you were a charming, infallible, and alluring magician

But all you ever were, a guileful, cunning shark who gambled its own love

With someone just for 'fun' Played with my emotions, made me a flickering light

Elated me once then frightened me that same melancholy, cataclysmic night

You're one of my few mistakes, I never even want to rewrite