38. Burn

                                        

                                              
Burn
                              
(By Lin-Manuel Miranda, burns my heart)
                              


                              
[POTTER]
                              
I saved every letter you wrote me
                              
From the moment I read them
                              
I knew loved you
                              
You said you understood me
                              
I thought you were mine
                              


                              
Do you know what I thought
                              
When you first wrote back to me?
                              
I thought
                              
"He does want to be with me. 
                              
Maybe our love can exist."
                              


                              
You and your words flooded my senses
                              
Your sentences left me defenseless
                              
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
                              
You built cathedrals
                              


                              
I'm re-reading the letters you wrote me
                              
I'm searching and scanning for answers
                              
In every line
                              
For some kind of sign
                              
of when you were mine
                              


                              
But the world seemed to
                              
Burn
                              
Burn
                              


                              
You published the letters Blaise wrote you
                              
You told the whole world how you brought
                              
This man into your bed
                              
In clearing your name, 
                              
you have ruined your life
                              


                              
Do you know what I thought
                              
When I read what you'd done?
                              
I thought
                              
"You drove your own career off a cliff,
                              
And never thought of the consequences."
                              


                              
You and your words, 
                              
obsessed with your reputation...
                              
Your reasoning borders on senseless
                              
And you let everyone know and
                              
now they condemn you...
                              


                              
You, you, you...
                              


                              
I'm erasing my connections to you
                              
Let no one know how I feel
                              
And that you broke my heart
                              
You have torn my love all apart
                              
I am watching you
                              


                              
Burn
                              
Watching them 
                              
burn you
                              


                              
The world has no right to my heart
                              
The world has no place in judging us
                              
They won't get to know what I am
                              
I'm burning the evidence
                              
Burning the letters that might incriminate me
                              


                              
You forfeited all rights to my heart
                              
You forfeit a place in my life
                              
You sleep with your wife and mistress instead
                              
And only have the memories
                              
Of when you and I were friends
                              


                              
I hope that you burn