Your new life was born from chemicals
An abuse of what should've been natural
An abusive nature
Now your nails are shorn to keep dirt 
from getting under them
You fidget when your curls don't sit right
Restlessness lends itself to sleep that bleeds 
into early afternoon

And you called yourself lazy as you called yourself mine

You needed a transfusion
New blood that was thick
But got water in an IV drip

drip

drip

It has thinned out all of you 
(including your reasons)
An infant inside the body of an adolescent 
posing as a man
with caffeinated mouth 
and nicotine stained hands
You spoke when you slept

(You called yourself lazy as you called yourself mine)