They Turned Away

I want something sweet to teach me ‘bout sweetness
I want someone to love my ugliest shafts
Peer under my skin and say
‘we’ll be okay’.   I want to be 
Carried home on a stretcher smiling
But alive enough to enjoy the cradle this time oh innocence
Comes and goes
One way love takes it
Two-way love brings it back
Bring it back
Don’t turn away
Don’t give me that look that says ‘ew you’re weird and I’m so clean’
Don’t tell me you
Haven’t looked pain in the eyes
Don’t leave me here
I showed you the spark of evil in me so you’d blow it out
Don’t tell me the wo