Why do you follow
Why do you care
We were strangers
Why must you know
Why must you look at me
With eyes so intense
You see right through me
You have knowledge beyond anything I've known or seen
You watch me with intent as if I'm a puzzle
An unsolved puzzle
An unfinished book
A mystery
Yet you ask things
Things I will not tell
I don't want you to get involved
My life
My secrets
My lies
You'll get hurt if you keep following me
Can't you return to your illusions
Your happiness
Your world of knowledge
Why must you pursue me
Why must you act like you care
Like you know me
We are miles apart
I'm something you should fear
I want to despare you
To make you give up
To stop this pursuit
Yet you won't move from my side
Like an immovable shield
I'll hurt you
I could kill you
I don't want to lose you
Your far too close now
I want to force you away
To let you experience happiness
But I don't want to let you go
My heart rejects such thoughts
If your too close I'll hurt you
Like a rose with many thorns
You'll bleed if you try to hold me
In those arms that look so warm
In these paths that lie unseen
I want to see where you will go
I want to create a rift
To keep you away
A distant life that shouldn't be so near
So warm
So full of promise
I just hope
A hope beyond hope
That when the rift is made
You won't try to reach for me
You won't jump that distance to stay near
Lest you underestimate the distance
And perish all because of me
