three cheers for four years

by mary is

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you don’t get to speak

sit there and bow your head

you don’t get to sleep

there’s monsters in your bed



i won’t bite my tongue

and swallow back the sound

if i don’t have a voice

then how will i be found?



four years

picking up the mess you made

let’s hear it, three cheers

for the champion of saving face


fours years

standing in to save my space

let’s hold it back, no tears

i’m driving past my own grave



because i died in your house

and i can’t avoid that street

it’s almost like you’re dead too

resurrected in every face i see



you don’t get to know

you’re too far away

you to get to show up,

unannounced, and leave your baggage at my brain



you don’t get to sing

it’s my song and the melody is mine

you don’t get to bring

your darkness in and trade it for my light



you don’t get to steal

the soundness in my sleep

you don’t have to feel

the nightmares that you brought into my dreams



when you show up as a tornado

a hurricane, the storm the night before

you don’t get to tear it down

or wash away my safety anymore



four years

cleaning up the mess you made

let’s hear it, three cheers

for being my own saving grace



four years

sometimes feels like yesterday

let’s hold it, close, i’m here

and you don’t get to have a say

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released August 26, 2022
written one year ago today.

thank you to anyone who listens <3

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mary is Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

songs made in my bedroom. my dog helps sometimes

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