i've only recently realized that our lives and happiness
are completely transferable
perhaps not literal transfer, but
you can actually give yourself to another
and i don't mean romance and all that shit;
those fairy tales that drug us
i mean in reality.

sometimes we give purposefully, sometimes gradually
sometimes completely by accident
but i gave myself away
and i watched happiness drain from me
and be intravenously fed into her
giving back her life
filling the emptiness and the void

i never really cared if it drained me
not that it would change anything
it was out of devotion
almost unreal devotion that made me
completely willing to sacrifice

but sometimes offerings are ignored
because of dirty hands or selfish hearts
but it doesn't mean
that the sacrifice didn't die
and that the offering wasn't made