Warm tears disappear at once
Into disheveled shrouds of faded eyeshadow
Then, slither down your cheeks, and into your mouth
Fragrances of bitter salt permeate your laboued breaths
You sense, distantly, the gentle embrace of your pegasus companion

What do I do, man
What do I do, I've been trying so hard to just get over Dub
What am I missing?
I don't understand why this is so hard

Love is pain
An endeavour
Temporary
But love is neccesary, and inevitable
The self is permuted by it
Thus, it is neccesary to wield it shrewdly

I just wanna love, I don't know what this feeling is
Like, my heart aches
What do I do with it?
I'm such a bitch

Understand this, and this above all other things
Before you can truly love anyone else
Before you can fall in love with the world itself
You must love yourself first

How the fuck do I love myself if I'm so awful?

Your conscious experience is filtered through your brain
And your brain alone
To dare and ask these questions to yourself
Indicates a primal desire to be better
And to heal
Submerged beneath cynicism and irony
Your heart lusts for the ordinary and sensory
The prickle of the grass beneath your hooves
A distant chatter on a safe day
Stifling a giggle with a friend, in delight of the absurd
The thrill of a trickshot
The thrill of the game
Everything that you experience
Is because you have chosen to get up again
In service to that will
When you are all that you have
Endeavour to be something that you love
Then, love yourself
Nothing else matters
There is absolutely no other way to live
And, you must live

Cause it ends up hurting everyone around me when I'm so mean to myself
And I don't need to be
And it's like, I live in my own world
So I have to love myself because

Nothing truly matters until you decide that it does
And baby, does it feel good to love yourself
You must allow yourself that freedom

Because, my own mind creates the world
It's all about the game because I make the rules

Yes, it has always been this way

And to love myself, I don't have to win
I don't have to be perfect, I just have to keep going
I have to make new rules
And I must keep changing