these scars i didn't get from you
i got them from my mother too
my father gave them to her first
when he told his love lies that were cursed
with time they slowly fade away
turning red and then to gray
but words they keep on cutting me
as wilted leaves fall off our tree
in 8 years time you'll ask of me
where i got these scars you see
and trace them with your sylphlike hands
only then will you understand.
