Iridescent

I watched it rotating thousands of times  But you wore it so effortlessly  Casting shadows while hoping that I shifted pins in your breaking skin  You held the words  On the tip of your tongue  A constant with change, a mind rearranged  "If that's what it takes"  Promises are worthless if they're kept in a glass cage  I remember when we first locked eyes  It was dark inside me  But you turned on a light  I remember how my focus changed  You seemed clear in a familiar haze  You were a friend from the very first word  I felt adrift, now that seems absurd  I could hold you in a trance these days  I took the time to learn you from the look on your face  To the way we embrace  I've known of your touch  I know what you need  When you're emotionally stuck  I know you better than I know myself  It's tiring relying on a ghost for help  As we get older does our history change?  Who scores the failure?  Who takes the blame?  Do secrets stay whispers forever?  I try to speak with a mouth full of leather  You held the question, luminescent and still Parallels creeping under the cracks in my skin) I try to speak with a voice unheard  I feel alone in a room full of people  Can't forget it with a body of burns  Try swimming in a soul so evil  Try laying in a hate filled grave  Try scratching at skin deep scars  Try sleeping in the bed you made  Is honesty an untold art?  I've known since the instant you told me  That I would let go  If that's what it takes