We're growing up,
Too fast,
Seeing it play,
Streaking past

I need you to find your strength,
It's there somewhere deep,
It's okay to be afraid,
But I need you to be brave.

I could call you Clementine,
I recognized your eyes,
Someone I could never erase,
Familiar like a past life.

We'll pick apart these wounds,
Ones that never truly healed,
Stitches on stitches,
I'll sew these limbs back onto you.

Now you've thinned the veil,
Moved Earth and heaven close enough,
So close the light is blinding,
A million volts crackling,

I see that too bright future still ahead,
Hanging up there just out of reach,
A too-ripe fruit rotting on the tree.

Just keep whispering,
All together a scream,
A thousand silent swings,
Still fells the sturdiest tree.

I'm ready to write my own history,
The perfect place to break apart the world,
Strike the heart,
Rotten as it may be.

I think I knew it was this again,
Its emptiness tugging on me,
Like a childhood basement,
A horror I feel remembering me.

I've watched you grow and grow,
Taller, stronger, bolder,
Undeniable like a weed,
Upwards like a tree,

This was the dream,
What's sleep within a dream yield?
Dreams in dreams in dreams,
There's no evidence this is real.

If there's one thing I know,
It's who I truly am.
Before I was a devil,
This time I'm a good man.

Unpeeling an onion,
My ugliness is slowly healing,
Rehydrate my inner self,
Watch as my skin fumbles back around me,
A scab on your beautiful memory.

A sailor once above the waves,
Now I'm begging Sir Davey,
To my brethren searching,
May they find my body.

Be fierce to frighten the beast,
I'll be waiting amongst the trees,
We'll never go hungry,
So long as you stay with me.

Inflicting love so murderously,
Mr. Dickins killing in the streets,
She'd scream an angel did this to me,
If only she could speak.

Is this how the caterpillar feels,
As it climbs inside it's cacoon?
Body spent on life attained,
Traded for this tomb.

A heart to her is nothing,
By the millions she's reaped,
But always just one in her dreams,
The loneliest soul set free.

These fiends haven't tasted defeat,
Well sisters, neither have we,
Yes they thirst for blood and pain,
But we too can drink.

Left to wander,
My mind can get so big,
Finding holes I'd never see,
A machine to fill wherever I dig.

Nevertheless you can take it,
Easy to bruise but impossible to break,
That's why you kept breathing,
That night you fought the waves.

Dig and dig and try,
Split it in two,
Catalog each component,
Break it down; find the truth.

There's no reason,
Not one you'll ever find,
Don't look so closely,
You can search until you're blind...

All these interests and energy,
How they wax and wane,
The only thing that'll never change,
Is how different I'll feel in a day.

My hands are on your head,
Fingers swimming in your hair,
Like snakes in the grass,
They're feeling for the cracks...

You feel it at night,
Too vivid and clear,
Something wants to hurt you,
Something sickening and near.

This man she remembered,
Perhaps not from this life,
Now he smiled with her,
And looked straight in her eyes.

Raven haired girl,
With the universe in her eyes,
She washed up on shore,
And walked with the sunrise.

Can you hurt someone else,
If it saves you pain?
Can you cut it out knowing,
You won't be whole again?

What did last night hold for me,
Red, dripping, loose, and ragged,
What has last night left me holding?
Sticky, stained, and empty...

I experience the world around me,
But to be literal,
I experience the world within me,
My mind constructs the world my eyes see...

I spit, bite, and writhe,
My nature and my machinery,
Perhaps more than any fight left in me,
Vultures just doing the same...

Distant windows broken and opaque,
Mirages or a weary face,
Motion or a restless mind,
Dead but too alive...

I can't be moved,
The ocean and Earth part,
Only the heavens stand over me,
They are all I see.

The haze has cleared,
Revealed an angry sea,
The floor coming apart,
Waves tearing up at me.