Suffering // Departure - Aethere

The light that once poured from my eyes is now flickering

The butterflies turned to moths

Deep breaths became shallow

Rotation of the Earth seemed to have slowed

The roots I felt were holding me down-Ripped from the soil

There was no lesson to be learned

The absolute worst part

Was constantly having you behind my eyelids

In the back of my ruined/ head

Knowing that I love (ed) you

While you had the same

Instead they were filled with a stranger

Who betrayed and left debris

Who left the walls scattered

And the roof thrown far away

Only to let the contents of my home suffer

While I lay in silence

Knowing I had to leave

Knowing

I could never live there again

There was no lesson to be learned

II

I am still ruined

Reverting to thoughts of that broken home

The doors were locked

So, I came in through the broken window

Just to look around through debris

Sift through memories of ash

Walk through halls that once held life

It’s bitter and freezing

Haunted, to say the least

I resent myself for taking the time

To revisit the shared vision

I held on through the storm

Tried to hold together all that I could

I’m not enough

With roots ripped from this soil, this house is no god damn home

Move on

There is nothing left for us here

Move on… There was nothing left for me there

Move on… There's nothing

Move on… There was no lesson to be learned