Breakup Diorama from Utility Drawer by Crush Limbo

I tried to wipe away
all traces of you
Confide in someone
with a different view

I tried, but kept finding
you there instead
Smug, snide …
living rent-free in my head

Friends were clear:
I should summon up the will
Move on, find a hobby,
learn a skill

[pre chorus]
That time I couldn’t
get off work to go to Japan
That’s fine, you said,
and booked a flight
with my best friend, Stan.

I got drunk; you hit me
with a frying pan
Funny now, it all seems
part of someone’s master plan

[chorus]
Break-up diorama
figurines of you and me
They capture all the drama
exorcise the misery

Break-up diorama
I was foolish not to see
How these miniature reliefs
could set me free

[VO interlude 1]
The art of Bonsai is
a time-honored technique:
a practical way
to bring oneself back
to a natural, calm state of being

V2
Surrounded by relics
of our former selves,
each one blunting
any promise of renewal

Peering out from caskets
on my shelves,
wounds are fossilized,
bedazzled and bejeweled.

Friends were clear:
I should summon up the will.
Armed with shears
and topiary skills, I make …

[VO interlude #2]
Bonsai is a technique
typically employed
to sculpt miniature trees,
but in rare cases
it has been used to depict people …
and the things they use
to hurt each other.

[chorus]
Break-up diorama
figurines of you and me
They capture all the drama
exorcise the misery

Break-up diorama
I was foolish not to see
how these miniature reliefs
could set me free

[choral solo]

[chorus/ outro]

Breakup diorama
moodiness was arbitrary
Passion, love and trauma
in a tale so cautionary

Breakup diorama
bas relief and topiary
Making pain and trauma
Somehow seem a bit less scary

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