Contagious

I'm realizing just how sorry I truly am

For all the shame and self-deception

Like it all just came apart

Each cause, each pause, finite, imperfect flaws

I've reached my utter zenith

Tearing through this shallow moderation

Pray there's no cause to pacify

What's left undone

Just lucid traces of a path

We chose to stray from long ago

What kind of fool revisits blights

And contradictions once he's free?

"Just let it go" she said

Along with every tired turn

Of phrase I've ever heard

It leaves me empty because

I know she's got it right

And I've been so passive

More contagious than inspired

A little light breathed into darkness

Where nothing ever really grows

Pray there's no cause to pacify what's left undone,

Just lucid traces of a path we chose to stray from long ago.

What kind of fool revisits blights

And contradictions once he's free?

Your best taints the rest

Fools like up and they swallow.

Following the same apprehensive state of mind that we follow down.

So many wasted days hiding out in the shadows.

Sorrow filtered through the cracks of what becomes of tomorrow.

Nothing left but the truth, shine a light and we got it.

Draw yourself to a place where the lies are forgotten now.

Prepared for the worst of what becomes of the others.

Just one more life for me to sacrifice.