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Fighting Your Disease


I am a symptom of your disease Hopped up on overdoses of caffeine Because from hate, love breeds I am a symptom of your disesase My heart is a mutation An abomination A revelation A new revolution Because your words are just pollution Choking me for so long I couldn't see past the haze breaking through my daze, fighting into consciousness your rage made me delirious Your hate was the sickness My kindness the cure Trying so hard to pull me under Yet I cling on and endure Scratching at the water's surface Yanking out the IV drips You're just a cancer and I'm the chemotherapy tell me not to jump and I'll fly are you hearing me? Telling me to succumb to the fear that you made reappear again and again til my eyes couldn't see straight Slipped on coke bottle glasses just to walk again Hear my own voice straining for a handhold to grab on Now I'm scaling mountains and you're in the gorges Aren't I just gorgeous? Standing at the pinnacle My fingers are stretched so wide I could scrape the edges of the canyon on both sides You never knew the poison That your hate created but I reiterated That I won't be defeated Because you're still sick dying from hatred and I'm in remission Scratch that, I'm healed.
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