Reckless as you are, it is me you discard

Volatile and charged, here to leave your mark

Stop and test these grounds

Where you rest your feet

Build a nest in me

Planting seeds while I sleep

Dragging me along, in zealous pursuit

Pulling me through you, draining me of my fruit

Claws you sink in deep, claim what you have come to seek

All the while I starve, for your need to feed

Look at me if you can

I am torn, derailed

Once content, now I’ve failed

Forgotten, alone, and frail

Now you’re done I salvage, my pride once gone

Scent has faded and your traces worn

But I fail to understand who I was when I let you in