No obligation to offer shelter
Yet you were taken in and made to feel welcome
Hopeless, lost and scared, desperate and alone
A naive heart, took you in and gave you home

And then all was ruin
Then all was death
As a vicious tumor
Throughout life you spread
Toxic now the soil
All roots left to decay
The fruit of labours spoil
In the grip of your wretched plague

We were so blind
Deaf to your kind
For where you go
Death follows you

Your cancer cold and black
Infested branches crack

Discoloration boils
No growth from tainted soil

Blood pours from open wounds
By decay now consumed

Our love straight to the grave
Dead wood now burns away

Never to return
All traces of you burn
Now that you are gone away
Free to grow free to be free

Carved out, root and stem
Transgressions now condemned

Conviction strong as oak
The fires of truth are stoked

Your deceit etched in wood
Foul intention understood

No remorse, no shame; no doubt
Sever and cast you out

Never to return
All traces of you burn
Now that you are gone away
Free to grow free to be free

The horizon seemed so daunting without you
Grounded by my fear, cold and alone
The loss of what I thought was a companion
Just to learn you were a parasite all along...

Hours wasted waiting for a death
That would never come
Can't be undone

All of the life
I never lived
Because your infection was crippling

All of our labour
All of our toil
Cast aside in the dark
And left to spoil

Relying on trust
From someone desperate and lost
A foolish mistake
Mistake I'll never make again

Hours wasted waiting for a death
That would never come
Can't be undone

All of the life
I never lived
Because your infection was crippling

I will labour
And I will toil
To create a life that will never spoil

Feeding you pity
And taking you in
A worthless mistake I will never make again!