My tangled hair is grabbing now
It's catching on the trees
This darkened forest haunts me now
Picks at my ****** knees.
My lungs are doused in kerosene
The fire licks my ribs
The wind is laughing at pain
Taunts me with these digs.
My ears are screaming, "Make it stop!"
I've tried it all too much
The laughing pierces unclean ears
But it has me in it's clutch.
My legs are achy, like the bullet
That lodges in my thigh
Shoots up my leg so crystal clean
But doesn't get the high.
My bones are cracking- every one
Is begging me to quit
And every inch shouts me to stop
But I let them take the hit.
My heart is pounding more and more
Erupting from my chest
The trunks are gray and wilting now
Before they've looked the best.
My veins are coursing, volts are high
Circulating all my cells
Feeding off the boiling screams
And making my heart melt.
My head is beating, metronome
Keeping pace as I run on
Escape the forest and it's grab
They have come to prey upon.
The branches hanging from the trees
With leaves that cascade down
Willows like nooses grace above
Parasites that haunt the town.
I've got to leave this wretched place
Before the trees can get to me
But the screaming is turning into song
Once sung by the banshee.
The nooses beckon my burnt up lungs
And soothe my beating heart
They've called me close to brush my hair
They've loved me from the start.
And trees like blankets wrap me up
They take away the pain
Show me what it's like to love something
I don't want to hurt again.
Groggy voices, they call me up
Their longing- it grabs me
Lulls me down to lovely nights
Sings me straight to sleep.