Hushed breath
Her voice is the wind
And rose petals, cemetery skin
Exhaling excerpts of the life you lived
And the taste of innocence
And if you close your eyes
The world can disappear
The things you fantasized
Materialize so clear
Air still from lack of angels
All of earth’s regrets
Hold onto the antithesis
It’s the only thing that shelters us from existence
It’s my one recurring nightmare
It’s the blank skin on the knife
It’s the lack of purity present in life
I crawled through the sky
Dressed in constellations that blessed my body with their disguise
And I dreamt in waves
With my features accepted amongst the darkness that we’ve made
And I breathed the air
With a hunger beyond my control
A thought beyond compare
And I swam to fly
Sky’s bleeding oceans and the ocean’s bleeding sky
I stayed up that night
To cherish the loss of light
I had finally found a home
To share my contempt
For every silhouette
That inevitably goes
Midnight we arranged
Spoke of desires to stain
The world in monochrome
Abandoning stars
For all I’ve wanted thus far
To give in to my shadow
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