Lexi Pierson: Listen

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I Will

I held loneliness in my arms
I kissed jealousy on the lips
I tucked misery in bed at night
And somehow made love with all of it

I remember the first good morning after the last bad night
You were asleep; I was busy tattooing you to every part of my mind
‘Cause I had a one-way ticket down 95, right through Jacksonville
I was thinking, baby, if you can’t find me, maybe I will

You asked me what it took to let you go
And wait for the answer like I shouldn’t know
Well, the lights are bright and the curtain has closed
Your encore is over, that’s it for the show

I’ve got songs and poems, pictures and drawings, memories to last me lifetimes
I’ve got scars and burns, broken bones, trophies and blackened eyes
I put my defenses in place and my heart in a cage made of steel
I was thinking, baby, if you can’t love me, maybe I will

Insecurities abound like the air around me
I can breathe nothing but you inside I’m drowning
How peaceful is this death after that very first breath
I never knew the reaper would be so beautiful