Turning Your World Around

There is passion and there is love

There is lust and there is trust

It built, and it grew you knew

Just what it was

You manipulated the passion and took you love I gave

You gave the lust and broke the trust

You destroyed and diminished, and you knew

Just what you did

You kindled the flames and you burnt everything around you

You lit up my emotions and you let the flames engulf me

Like an arsonist you threw the match and turned away

Like a Hollywood movie star walking from an explosion

You stole the oxygen and allowed my mind to weaken

You told me only you could love me ‘cause look at who I was

You build the bonfire and I was the effigy you threw upon it

You left me breathing in nothing but smoke; you allowed be to believe that this was all I was worth

You knew what you were doing

You set everything on fire and walked away like I deserved to burn

But I don’t

I will put out your fire

I will salvage the debris you have left behind

Like a phoenix from the ashes I will rise and be more beautiful than I was before you set me alight

There is a new fire. A fire in my heart. A fire in my soul.

A fire to achieve more than you made me believe was possible

I know what I am doing.

You set everything on fire. But I relight the fire within me.