artificial limbs cover whats broken
amongst our lives
like a bed wetter’s dream
i long to leave the world speechless
leave out the casualties
but keep my own
implosion of the manic depressive
beautiful and perfect

easy to swallow
my shallow ego dies
at the thought of showing
the blueprints to myself
because ambiguity is my strength
alone and lonesome
he finds comfort on the cold floor

tears bleed out for you
and now few days go by
where i want to be beneath
six feet below the terrain
this is my declaration of inner peace
to banish away all the pieces broken
from the hateful beings
of before our time
the lines of happiness
that i would shoot up in me
have lost their gilded shine
now they’re just fragments of my childish despair
you’re all the drug i need

give me your pain
let me take it all
like the man i am
my filthy hands can feel the scars
behind your breast
the healed incisions of years before
i only want to give you everything i can
in exchange for your discomfort
i want to bear your heart’s burdens
you brace for the unknown
every time you feel alive
i pray to you my god every night
so that i may keep your heavenly embrace
and never feel the malice that’s left
your eyes show what’s unsaid
it’s only fair to bring you back from the dead