Here’s the thing<\/p>\n
I grew up in your shadow<\/p>\n
Everyday<\/p>\n
Your darkness<\/p>\n
Drowned my sunlight<\/p>\n
I couldn’t compete<\/p>\n
Everyone flocked to you<\/p>\n
You were the rock star<\/p>\n
The violent one<\/p>\n
The crazy one<\/p>\n
I stood back hidden in the shadow<\/p>\n
I raised your kids<\/p>\n
Soothed their wounds<\/p>\n
Hell I still do<\/p>\n
I love you I do<\/p>\n
But I am tired<\/p>\n
Tired of being the shadow<\/p>\n
Tired of licking wounds<\/p>\n
I am out of salve and patience<\/p>\n
I warn people<\/p>\n
I do<\/p>\n
They never listen<\/p>\n
They don’t really know you<\/p>\n
They see what I want to see<\/p>\n
The fun, the laugh<\/p>\n
But I know what is underneath<\/p>\n
I have been there<\/p>\n
Thru it all<\/p>\n
I know your shadows are darker<\/p>\n
Your crazy is deeper<\/p>\n
Your haunting laugh<\/p>\n
Is as phony as your tears<\/p>\n
You aren’t real<\/p>\n
You never were<\/p>\n
I know that because I was there<\/p>\n
You are the shallow end of the pond<\/p>\n
The pretty flowers don’t go very deep<\/p>\n
The petals\u00a0blow away quickly<\/p>\n
I suppose you don’t mean<\/p>\n
To hurt the ones who love you<\/p>\n
But you always do<\/p>\n
Always<\/p>\n
I wonder if love even lives<\/p>\n
Inside that heart of yours<\/p>\n
Encased in faux gold<\/p>\n
Crusted with cubic zirconia<\/p>\n
I guess I sound bitter<\/p>\n
It hurts to watch<\/p>\n
You slay them all<\/p>\n
One by one<\/p>\n
No one sees you do it<\/p>\n
No one understands it<\/p>\n
Only me<\/p>\n
And I am hiding in the shadows<\/p>\n
Where you\u00a0put me long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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