Not to be contained

Oh please don't love me outright

You see, you see, you see,

it was from a past life, that someone better could possibly be me

but, no no not this time, 

this time it's just a test, 

a beginning and a middle and 

no one ever knows the end

because before the final chapter,

well, it turns out that she fled

to a different reality 

with a different cast

where she smiled the same way 

and called out different names

and everyone believed that it was from the depths of somewhere darker that 

she must have came

but the truth oh the truth is 

invention and reinvention and trial and error

here she is in the same dress

spinning around and around and around

driving some new man mad

can he keep her? 

what a laugh 

if he only knew, 

that he was just you

just a little less polished

just a little less cute

just a little more used

she's a runner, little lover 

she's a phoenix in a cage that you designed

before she burst into flames 

and you come to find

that the only person she's ever been is mine

so, please please don't make the mistake 

don't follow the pattern, oh so boring and plane

and please don't love her outright,

she isn't yours to contain 

she just leaves, slips the trap again

laughing all the way, as she cries and cries

through the pain 

of looking into new eyes with a new name 

and wishing it was yours all the same 

all the same 

all over and over and over 

again