lung muscles seizing up at the impossibility of life
i think we just die a little more every day
wondering where all the padding went against the black abyss at the edge of the world.
loosening vocal chords for that last desperate plunge over the lip.
looking for normality in all the wrong places,
i let you crack all my ribs back and rifle through my organs
afraid to confront reality, i locked up all my emotions
and left them for dead in the basement corners of my heart.
they came back to haunt me instead.
monsters!
monsters!
and while these grimy fingertips creep back into the brain.
for once in this life it will never be quite the same.
for once in this life it will never be quite the same.
