Cost of Sacrifice

Worse days are coming

I can see it in your stare

We feel resentment start to settle

Disintegrating a day at a time

Foundations crumble

Before my eyes

I am a well for you to draw from

Far past capacity

Under the surface

I decay

Cracks in your frame precede a flood of regret

Panic twists its shape beneath the surface

Fear grows in inches

And shatters me into fragments of a whole

I can’t allow to bloom

Hands worn raw

From holding onto hope that things could change

I’ll push you away for your own sake

And try to find peace in the wreckage

No trust left in myself

Cracks in your frame precede a flood of regret

Panic twists its shape beneath the surface

Fear grows in inches

And shatters me into fragments of a whole

I can’t allow to bloom

The sun will cauterize our wounds in time

Parts of a whole have shattered into jagged and serrated shards

Cutting me open as I struggle to hold them together

A thousand incisions will bleed me slow enough

For me to watch every passing moment of regret in my mind

Grow into months and years of bitterness

Though it comes at a price

I’ll find peace when I close my eyes

In knowing that without me

You will find a better life

The sun will cauterize our wounds in time

At the cost of sacrifice