UNDERSTANDING

Nobody really ever understands,
No matter how they say they do,
Nobody could possibly understand all the intricacies of you.
They'll never know your every motivation,
They'll never see your every slight depression,
They'll never look deeper than they want,
They'll never hear anything that isn't said.
No matter how they say they do,
Nobody could possibly understand
All the intricacies of you.
If they say they understand
They're lying,
'Cause lying comes naturally
When you think you own empathy.
All the sympathetic stares in the world
Won't make me believe them.
They don't understand because they're not you.
No matter how they say they do,
Nobody could possibly understand
All the intricacies of you.
...nobody ever really understands.

FADE

The wind tugs with grasping fingers
I can feel myself
Almost
Fading away.
It's a slow thing
But no one notices,
No one cares.
Slowly I become nobody,
If I was ever anyone at all.
Slowly I become nothing
Like Echo,
Just the faintest whisper in your ear,
The slightest breeze upon your skin.
My kisses are the ignored chill
Upon your spine.
I am nothing but a memory,
A ghost of something
That might've been
ReaL.
The wind grasps with tugging, needy
Fingers
And I let myself
Fade away.