My Happy Ending

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From my side of the door
I know I've heard this before
it used to make me feel better
but now it's comfortable
effect negligible
in the dark
on the floor
with the cold

Under northern lights
we made it through the night
where you used to watch the children
but there's ice on our feet
snowflakes under our sheets
and the river
how it runs
it never ends

In the back of a car
we played in the dark
and I first touched your hair
my fingers dived through
I never saw eyes so blue
so I closed
my own
to forget

There was a poison in your mind
as our fingers entwined
you said it didn't matter
but it destroyed us both
in folded letters we wrote
which I keep
in a case
by my bed

With a knife he approached
and your name that he spoke
I said I wanted you happy
but it's not good enough
and he thinks he's so tough
so I run
and I hide
in the dirt

Now it is permanent
across this continent
I haven't heard from you in years
until I open my mail
and my memory's assailed
with the scent
of your life
in my hands

So we begin again
plane tickets in hand
the future's all that's left
because the past that I hate
makes me want a clean slate
so this time
I'll do it right
from the start

And at night I can't sleep
this plot has gone too deep
and lasted far too long
I see the Earth opening
and the omen it brings
but I wake
nightmare sweat
and it's gone