Not Meant To Tread

Reaching out so many times

I keep cutting myself open

On the jagged edges that surround you

But still I bleed myself dry

Hoping by my sacrifice

That you may find your way free

From the gilded cage

You’ve let yourself be captured in

How foolish must I be

To fight for someone so strongly

Unwilling to stand up for themselves

Too deep in the echos

The shadows and the noise

To see their own way clear

I can light the way

But I can’t drag you along

And every moment spent standing here

Is another I might have spent

Walking in the light

Alongside someone more willing

And able to see the sun

Wrap me in the bandages

And let me find the strength

To walk away and let you go

Down into your darkness

Where I’m not meant to tread