Two Steps From Goodbye

There is no point in you reaching

     your hand out to me today.

I was thinking about what you said last night

     and I will only push you away.

What seemed like a forever thing

     has died upon the vine

I think you need to go live your life,

    and leave me to live mine.

You know how I was wounded by a past

    where I never felt I was free.

Now you want me to be a clone of you

    That’s not the way I see me.

Don’t try to coerce me with your kisses now,

They sear like acid on my skin,

     Don’t keep up this battle of wills,

I can not let you win.

     When you met me not so long ago,

I was finally planning a life of my design

     Now you want to change me, make me like you.

That’s your life you are planning, not mine

     You may think me cold hearted,

if I don’t believe you when you cry,

     But you have fooled me so many times before

you are just two steps from goodbye