Somebody else

Somebody else should have been kinder.

Somebody else should have helped you

while you held your own broken pieces together.

Somebody should have been a tether.

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Somebody should have told you

That you were always enough

While sitting beside you, in your dark,

And letting you know you’re worth it.

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Somebody else should have known

How badly you needed their patience,

Their presence, and to borrow their hope.

They should have known – “I do it on my own”

Doesn’t mean that you do it alone.

It doesn’t mean it has to be cold

In the place where you sit and you wish

That somebody would welcome you home.

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But somebody else should have warned me

How sharp your broken bits were.

Somebody else should have warned me,

You don’t care how your pain bleeds

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And I’m covered in red sticky ooze,

Which you should have kept inside of you.

Somebody should have warned me

You weaponized the pain you held alone

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I was just a civilian casualty.