I see right through you

[sapphiredawn]

Even though I know
some would say this was written in the stars
it's hard to remember a time
when I wasn't mad for fingers entangled in my hair
emblazoned in my flesh like letters to a long-forgotten enemy
Your hunger brands me, rips me, thrusts me
outside of my body into a pool of eyes held staring, sacred
too little too late but too calmly opaque
too much forsaking the symphony as the notes crashed down
again and again and again.

Babylon won't you hand me the antidote
I've been screaming out his name into the caverns again
too long for the narrowing of eyelashes
fastidiously etching out a warning
stitching up the fabric of my being and
oh hallelujah, she's come undone

In the grand days of great men
the warning of your body as you stare down my terror
a fucking childhood room of misappropriated toys
as you stare down my regrets
you ruin me for all the other boys
and I have my misfortune in the palm of your hand
clawing over and over and over again

Eternity handcuffed to the flame
what it's like to touch your face
or quietly speak your name
bleeding over and over and over again
oh hallelujah, I've come undone.