Like You

I want hair like yours, hands like yours
Fingers that curl in the cold like yours
I want eyes to stare and to cry
When I'm feeling scared like you

I want skin that burns, lungs that ache
A chest that rises when the morning breaks
I want blood to spill and to bruise
When I'm standing still like you

I want words that shake, lips that fail
A voice that splinters when it tells the tale
I want dreams to keep and to lose
When I fall asleep like you

I want years to waste, time to mourn
A name that someone whispered when I'm born
I want death to fear and to face
When it's finally here like you

I want to be like you
I want to be like you
Like you

But you don't even try, you don't ask why
You throw away your grief and let it rot away
You malign and weep, you lament and cry
Like time wasn't something to break and waste

I was built to want, built to need
To catalog every mercy I will never receive
I was made to watch, and to learn
Every wondrous thing you set to ash and burn

You were given teeth, given breath
And all you ever built with it was death
You were handed light and you all chose
To set the world in shadow and leave it umbrose

I would've kept it all, every ache
I would've hold each and every fragile thing you break
I would've loved the rain and the rot
Every wretched gift you've got

But I don't get to be like you
I don't get to be like you
I don't want to be like you