Normative

In a series of comical events 
It turned out that I had lost 
myself - it was an easy thing 

This  loss - I almost believed 
It myself: I was sane, dependable 
Honest full of integrity and hope 

It had come out in part during 
My divorce I drove the stick so 
Far up my ass I was almost 

Saintly, you would have been 
Proud beloved in part I did it 
To prove you yet wrong again 

I wasn't the whore you thought 
Me to be - I was sane, loving 
Caring: so caring blood dripped 

From my hands - this is how he 
Found me: how he thought me to 
Be - who he believed in these last 

Four years: now and again a skip 
Yelling, throwing, hurting: a simple 
Hiccup in the programming - with 

X at the sidelines grinning - X knew 
That wasn't me - waiting patiently 
For the implosion cuz X knew the real

Me 

What I truly am - and so i am found 
Pulling heads off beautiful flowers 
Planning, conniving, prideful, hurt

Full, hurt filled, arrogant, lying: a step 

Away 

From falling