Keeper of the Keys

Are you angry, did you cuss me?
Too bad, join everybody else
I guess you can say I'm selfish
but I wanted some time to myself.

Yeah, I disappointed many people
for staying away tonight
but I enjoyed the hell out of it
won't apologize for my right.

I'm tired of dealing with you and others
everybody wanting my time and space
it's mine and I give it when
I have enough to be able to replace

but I'm dry now, dried up
I need a moment to replenish resources
do you understand that I'm withered to nothing
it's beyond my control, these forces?

I love you, want you, need you
I care beyond what you will ever know
but there are times I sit inside me
unwilling to let me go.

Maybe it's time you find another way
to get into yourself so you won't freeze
standing locked out in the dark, pacing
waiting for the keeper of the keys.
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