If I had only known what waited
for me down that road
I could have turned around
and walked away
instead I stumbled into
a trap of my own making
ignoring all the signs
I closed my eyes and kept on walking
blinded to the truth
I think I always knew inside
yet I took those red flags waving
and wrapped them tight around my face
no room to breath or smell
or see the coming end
of everything that kept me going
like a lost bird in the desert
the head so buried in the sand
such willful oblivion
as the world falls down around me
through the choices that I made
and the responses that they triggered
from someone that never seemed to care
near as much as I