Metaphor

(Melanie Thompson)

When you've been with someone for years, seeming to have had a real love connection and then break up, it's hard to grasp. Let alone explain to someone else what happened. Lyrics often use metaphors to describe break-ups. This is how I use a metaphor to describe mine.

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Verse 1. You've ransacked
 my only chance 
 for happiness. 
 Sad circumstance. 

 You've mucked me up 
 my buttercup. 
 So quarrelsome. 
 I'm giving up.

 I wish you could 
 feel what I feel. 
 When I'm with you. 
 When nothing's real. 

 On bended knee 
 I plead to you. 
 You knock me down. 
 Say we are through.

Chorus. My long hair 
 sweeping across the floor. 
 My pretty nails 
 chipping away 
 at your cellar door. 
 My blue eyes spy an escape. 
 So, I try but I can't. 
 The chains won't break. 
 My heart still aches 
 in metaphors.

Verse 2. The sun goes down. 
 The cold rolls in.
 The dark consumes 
 this room I'm in.

 A radio. 
 A bottle cap. 
 A moving chair. 
 My ears are tapped. 

 To all the sounds. 
 To anything. 
 A neighbor's knock. 
 A neighbor's ring. 

 How did I let you 
 take me down 
 without a fight, 
 without a sound?

Chorus. My long hair 
 sweeping across the floor. 
 My pretty nails 
 chipping away 
 at your cellar door. 
 My blue eyes spy an escape. 
 So, I try but I can't. 
 The chains won't break. 
 My heart still aches 
 in metaphors.
© Melanie Thompson 2023