Nothing Less Than Flawless
You never allowed for imperfections
I had to be flawless in every way
Perfectly put together
With only perfect things to say
No dark mood would be tolerated
You would never let me slip
No, you held on too tightly
To ever loosen up your grip
I painted on a smile in lipstick
But sharpened words on stone
While you groomed me to be yours
I was learning how to be alone
And planning an escape route
To a life where I could be free
Of the need to be your perfect creation
To become the imperfect me
I cut the ties that bound me
Those strings you’d tightened every day
When you told me that you loved me
And that I’d never get away
But I had swallowed the stone that sharpened
The words that gave me back my voice
And replaced it with my bleeding heart
To make a different choice
When I was safely gone away
I put the heart back into its place
But it felt lost inside a cavern
Shrunken inside that space
And the stone I threw away from me
I watched it sink from view
Because leaving you was everything
Yet I was still in love with you
I’ve given up on perfection
I don’t paint the smile upon my face
And my heart will grow again
To fill that empty space
But I won’t go back to being flawless
A doll set up on display
Perfection isn’t possible
And love wasn’t meant to be that way.
