Darling, stop confusing me,

with your wishful thinking.

Hopeful embraces,

Don’t you understand?

I have to go through this,

I belong to here where no-one cares,

and no-one loves.

No light no air to live in,

a place called hate,

The City of Fear.

I play dead,

It stops the hurting.

I play dead,

and the hurting stops.

It’s sometimes just like sleeping,

curling up inside my private tortures.

I nestle into pain,

Hug suffering,

caress every ache

I play dead, It stops the hurting.