I left you, my safe haven

Buried deep in a grave

Beside all of those people

And the love that they gave

Thought I’d never deserve

The kind words and the praise

The palatial expanse

Of your warm, loving gaze

And that day in November,

When I gifted my heart

The abyss of despair

Tore my conscience apart

Unauspicious confession

Refuted, confined

‘I don’t see you that way’

So I turned in, resigned

To a lifestyle of loathing

I would show you, I’d dare

To dance boldly, and suffer

How I prayed that you’d care

A machine overrode me,

Malignant and cruel

Like that mistress of ballet

She inflicted her rule

Then the month of December,

Turned bitter and bare,

Felt devoid of all sense

And I saw how they’d stare

Never took to the stage

Body aching and frail

Left my passion behind me

Danced to fly and to fail

That night sky full of stars

Appeared deadened and cold

That place once felt like magic

But it hurt to behold