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?