"I'm sorry that you sprained your ankle
And that your dog died two years ago"
Best now to change subjects
Lest you feel pain on my behalf
It's called people pleasing
Never learned how to set boundaries
Abandoning all my scheming
To keep somebody in my life
This grief is temporary
Roll through just like my ankle
Bones creaking they hold steady
This pain is temporary
Leash wrapped around my beltline
Isolate and pretend that I'm fine
Old habits they don't serve me
Can I truly show vulnerability
Without detachment I am forced
To swim through my emotions
And no one's listening
Except my dog
But she can't sing back to me
This grief is temporary
Roll through just like my ankle
Bones creaking they hold steady
This pain is temporary
This grief is temporary
Roll through just like my ankle
Bones creaking they hold steady
This pain is temporary
But it hurts
It really f*cking hurts