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Safe and Sorry


I know the walls hurt me

Keep my heart trapped inside 

Like the falling rain, my tears flow

Out of my joyless eyes

But mostly, I’m numb

My feelings locked in, too

In the fortress that I built

To protect me from loving you

 
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