Yours for the Taking

You can be tragic or daring

challenging me is not easy.

I have to be surprised or mesmerized

but you with your fatality and flaws

boredom comes easily, sweetly

but you can have it, it's yours for the taking.

I'm yawing and sending you up the walls

but I to want crash your castle down

make it all mortar, brick and rumble

because I'm trouble.

Step by step I'm crossing the bridge

and you're crossing your heart

trying to fend me off with words,

but words are empty without meaning

like a hexes without magic.

I'll be your curse if that's easier

and will keep you from falling apart

because I won't break or go to pieces

my life's already stitched and sewn

in a light you want to keep for yourself.

You can have it, its yours for the taking

I'm not afraid of being left in the dark,

hurt or shoved out in the cold alone

and you can't face life forward

it's safer to stay backwards

watching everything from behind

building your dreams up and down

teasing desperation with need

but its not me that you need

its hope and I have plenty to spare

You can have it, it's yours for the taking