The Black Market Time

Listen closer now

Are you taking a step back from me

When I'm the fringe of your life?

Watch you sleep at night

Just to hold myself in

From a life that buys days in black market time

To keep from you



Am I the question

That begs to be paid attention to

Or starved and left to die?

I keep on hoping

To try and make something out of you

With a million reasons why



Celebrate your worth

I've been trying so hard to build

The monument that you deserve

By the time I'm through

My body will be just as obsolete

As the statue I've built