Another one.

If I'd know what I know now,
I wouldn't have stopped myself.
I'd stab the heart & carve it out.
If I'd know what I know now.

Timidly I knock on the door,
peek through the window of the carnival
where the give & take is pure & simple,
and finding the taste sour & bitter.

You know what I just found out?
Life's over the moment you hold out.
Whether you die tomorrow or a century tops.
In the end it's, if you can forgive yourself.

Drain.

This anger in me, I can't take a breath.
Like steam in the engine, it propels me ahead.
Don't know where I am, unless you're behind.
Give me a look, back to square one.
Counting the money, salvations spent.
Same old habit, who, where & when.
Love is a foreign country, one trip a time.
The spirit drains, in laughters and wine.

Brain warmer.

I need to be with myself because I am slow.
I don't know when the synapses say go.
Give me a moment to make sure they're talking to me
and it's not a case of mistaken identity.
I need to be alone. I need no excuse.
The brain says I'm under-archiving, I say it's overanalyzing.
It'd be funny if it's not indefinitely depressing.
I'm a lazy brain warmer telling the brain to chill.

Game.

There're certain games I'm afraid to play.
I always win & I think I know why.
It's a cosmic burden, the unexpected kind.
It's the game I call U ❤ I.