Forgiven But Not Forgot

Years regress to weeks
weeks are dismembered by days
1095 is roughly the amount it took
for your elegant corpse to decay

Though your memory still haunts me
oh yes, your memory still remains
undying love born in a broken heart
holds your visage prisoner in chains

This fable was your own to mold
At your side and service I would slave
beating hearts will now skip forever
decorating smiles across faces in graves

The battle for truth is long over
though this war still rages on
fighting our very own shadows
where forever has come and gone

Everything that I am
is all I was willing to offer
but in the takings of things for granted
myself was the lamb to your slaughter

so insane you would call me now
sanity isn't something I require
with both hands around your neck
unable to speak your no longer a liar

My love for you was scary
now peanuts to this regret
forgiveness was easily found in your corpse
but I would kill anything to forget

Days progress to weeks
weeks are assembled by years
3 of my longest spent breathing for you
now all I want is to forget you were near