Water.

You take me out just to break me in,

but your folly is that you can see the end.

Shocked me like wave, it tore down all my shame

but it came back to haunt me anyways.

You follow me around like smoke after flames,
One thought collapses while another relapses,
and I am getting better at dodging hearts,
so I don't have to restart.

These waves consume the breath left in me,
cause these lungs are too filled to breath so freely.
You walked right through, these waves that consume,
and breathed living life back in me.

I swam alongside you, to try and hide from you,
but you have walked these waters before,
and have seen the swaying storms.
So I swam behind you instead,
and surrendered my struggling sight.

Surrendering was the best thing I could have done.

-M