Saltwater - Zara McFarlane

Now you have gone

I feel saltwater

Broken promises

Drift beside me

Every day I wade out

To collect a piece of me

But when I’m ashore

Just an empty cure

Washes into my sting

You won’t let me be free

You won’t let me be free

Now you are here

I taste saltwater

Love’s never lived here

Just your footprints

Every day my mind’s

Flooded by your scrutiny

But by eventide

When the rage subsides

Your arms envelope me

You won’t let me be free

You won’t let me be free

You say you love me

Why do you pour

Saltwater in my wounds?

You say you love me

But all I know is

It has to hurt to heal

You say you love me

Why do you pour

Saltwater in my wounds?

You say you love me

But all I know is

It has to hurt to heal

You won’t let me be free

You won’t let me be free

You won’t let me be free

You won’t let me be free