Attendance

there's no real reason for you to keep showing up here
we all know
that you don't want to be here
you just like pretending that you do
lying to yourself
lying to us

nothing good is going to come of this
so why don't we just lock the door
and leave you out in the cold?
let you freeze out there
instead of tracking in mud
and ruining this nice clean carpet

it's not that we don't see that you appreciate the offer
but our love is not a cocoon for the caterpillar of your self-loathing
and you will not suddenly become a butterfly
simply because that's what we want