Liability

This poem is heavily inspired by Lorde’s “Liability (reprise)”, a song from her Melodrama album. Please listen to that song first.

Liability. Are we a liability?

Are we being too much for who we really are?

Are we being too much for what we have asked for?

Maybe we just overthink the things they told to us

Make beliefs out of what is unordinary

Or play pretend on those unfavorable circumstances

You think we are going places

But instead we are only dancing in circles

What are we going to do?

What are we willing to lose?

All of the leaves that are turning

All of the bridges that are burning

We know this will pass too

I hope it will not be too soon

Liability by choice, not by default

So whose fault was that though?