My heart is not a bar-less cage,
the canary would have left long ago.
Maybe my mind has been blind with rage,
but I think that bird is a lonely crow.
I've broken the faces of your porcelain dolls,
and I've stained their features with dread .
I've tortured myself with wolven thralls,
and now there's voices in her head
Prey and predator attempt to breed,
our catharsis breaks a mended dam.
A parasite warms a withered seed
..in the field there lies a bloody lamb
I'd been bound by strings and steel before,
and I'll hide the key to your lockless door.
A bond so bright has been born from ash,
a plate of gold mended from bags of
I'll count every footprint in the snow
Her boots leave dents in what I know
Bloodstains smell like worry on the wall
I pray that porcelain will catch my fall
Her bloodbath mouth against my wrist
I hold a burning flame in my fist
Apartment heart, awake till dawn
A broken bottle strewn across her lawn
I kiss faded bruises and taste bile
I hope that she'll be gone for a little while
I still shake when I see the knife in my drawer
I remember the sanguine spot on her floor
Bat wings make sickening sounds at night
I keep my chin up and stare into the light
Though blinding and burning, I search for a flame
I wilt my wings against the
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