The Color of Life

Your beautiful words fill me up,
take me higher than I've ever been.
They sail me across the mountain peaks,
past the moon,
the sun,
the stars.
Take me away like I've been begging for years.
Light my eyes with the color of life.

Until
the picture crumbles,
Your words break,
You're so convinced you're bad for me,
You can't see you're the best I've ever had.
Why should I be anything,
if I can't be
your everything?

You can't be alive
with a soul as dead as mine.
The scars on my wrist tell all the stories
you scream not to hear,
they break you down,
consume your very soul.
Open them up
and they'll speak, so free.

I've been begging
Take me away
I've been begging
Light my eyes
I've been begging
To be your everything
I've been begging
I can't stop begging.