I Can Barely Remember Things Before You Came

underestimated the future
and the weight
and the bruise
and the finality
that was you
when the gloves
came off and we lost
the changing rhythms
that came with the smoke
and the lights
and the sacrifice
that we would give
and give and take
until it all
just fell away
and away we
would go
until it
would finally
be gone
like my fears
promised it would