Teach Me To Smile

Teach me to smile again

Because I’ve forgotten how

Your years of promises

Broke fast when you found something better

Than us

And within a few minutes

We were already behind you,

Treading water in the middle

Of an ocean of our tears

And sometimes he tells me he misses you

Sometimes the rage that’s been

Building inside him for years

Explodes because he’s been abandoned again

Left to pick up the pieces

And he’s only a child

And I can only do so much,

Only tell him you haven’t forgotten him.

You still love him,

But if I keep feeding him these lies

Will I be any better than you?

You’re drowning in fantasy,

Telling me you’re not sure it will last

But immersing yourself into it,

Giving it all of you,

Taking from us to give to him

And when the fantasy falls apart,

Unties the loose knot,

What will you have to fall back on

When you’ve already given everything away?