Inferno

I hope you’re enjoying the view

Coming back to the scene of the crime

Why do you keep checking in?

Are you that happy to watch

As my world burns down around me?

The spark you threw on the tinderbox

Has turned into an inferno

That’s taken me months to set lines around

And get some kind of containment

Just when I think I have it all

Under some semblance of control

You pop your head in as if to check

And make sure the fires are still burning

Never doing a damn thing

To help me as I would’ve helped you

Just let the sucker burn, I guess

Lessons that I should’ve learned

But I’m a little busy now

Trying to recover all the things I almost lost

Too wrapped up in the damage that you did

When you chose to throw away

The best thing that had happened to me

In what was pretty close to

The worst year of my life so far

So no, I’m not doing fine

My life has almost turned to ashes

I let your fire burn too long

Almost past recovery

But now I’ve gotten past it all

At least enough to function

And I’ve said it all before

But I’ll say it once again

Either help me make sense of it all

Or stay away and let me clean this up

By myself as I’ve always had to do before