Despite

Tight lips to loose ends

So the cycle goes

Retribution's useless

Still can't help but count what I'm owed

The threat's a misperception

To restore safety and sense

I'm clearing the air now

Which fogs the form of my conscience

Use it or loser

My poor, aching pen

The letters I'm writing

More stationary than sent

Forbidden translations

Casting rosetta stones

Displaced my impatience

Where grace should be owed

Seems I have trouble discarding

My self-relegation

Granted, it's a process

Granted, what isn't?

I know that it's one foot before the next

A lesson from my descent

Although I've shaken the rust

Might I derail again?

Despite unraveling, I'm so tightly wound

Despite the spiral, I just couldn't come around

Despite the ends, I can't tell what it means

In spite of this, why are we so certain

Where our ends will meet?

Retrace my outline

Past this distorted reflection

Aren't I a big laughing riot

For all my hysterics?

Try to unlearn this reflex

I'm more than a kneejerk

Get back to breathing

Not just taking a breather

Examine the new gaps

Can't recall what filled their place

Seems when you chip at me, I flake

Time capsules

Hard to swallow

Such joyful noise shouldn't ring so hollow

If I should trust what I see

And no one's truly lost anything

I'll let trust be why I trust again

Despite unraveling, I'm so tightly wound

Despite the spiral, I just couldn't come around

Despite the ends, I couldn't tell you what it means

In spite of this, why are we so certain

Where our ends will meet?

Is it something in the water?

Must be something in the water