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Darkening Days


Pain comes in wallows so follow with the swallows I breathe this fire down your back and take you to the gallows, forget you must, not love but lust and all the roads you used to trust a bloody knife still in your hand you tracked him down you found your man Through the door you busted wide vomiting your sense of pride you stabbed and rived, you let it bleed, and in His eyes, done a good deed. Wake and eat you hungry child bodies upon bodies piled high enough to reach the stars, but you pull back and feed your scars blisters gaping, bruises shaping look at all the mess your making. Your smile now it grows much wider, and in your mind you preach the choir, insides turning, stomach lurching, in your heart a fire burning, sick with ashes from your greed cmon make your fingers bleed slowly drifting into madness, on your face you show no sadness, screams will keep you safe and warm inside the bodies you have torn.
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