Strangle

If words of love are on your tongue
then strangle them
strangle them

if you would speak
with desperate sighs and longing eyes
then strangle them
strangle them

Let no looks of love or briny tears
breach the sacred exterior
Let no poetry or honesty
shake the image of stoicism in your lover's eye
Let no trembled lip or betraying tip
show what hurt you hide beneath

if feeling comes and asks for voice
then strangle it
strangle it

When spurning spear pierces
tenderest wounds, let nothing cry out
just strangle it
strangle it

_____

Not sure where that's going, but I wanted to get it out.

Queen of the Unrequited

I
I'm sorry but
I'm sorry, but I don't feel that way

I
I'm sorry but
I'm sorry but I just don't feel that way

And it's okay
And it's okay
and it's okay

Because I am the Queen
the Queen of Unrequited
I
I am the Queen
The Queen of Unrequited
love

I'm sorry but you're just not pretty enough
I'm sorry but you're just not smart enough
I'm sorry but you're just not enough enough

*screams*

Yes, I bleed rejection
I breathe isolation
My being is being alone
I am the Queen of...

Yes, let's just be friends
Yes, never want to be lovers
Yes, I'm okay with that
Yes, I'll always love you

Yes, it hurts inside
Yes, it makes me cry
Yes, something in me dies
But I, I'm still the Queen of lies

The queen of lies
Of bloodshot eyes
of tear-stained pillows
of wondering why
Of the echoes of all the deaths I've died

Because I am the Queen
the Queen of Unrequited
I
I am the Queen
The Queen of Unrequited
love

(There will be more, but that's where this song is starting)