It represents no more than darkness
And whispers no smoother than hisses

A touch with a delicacy as crisp as cotton
Cutting your flesh clean from the bone

A plague known so silently by man
A cure locked deep within the cells of our governmental homes

It feasts off more than just your soul
Leaving it's carbon footprints well along your wrists

It thrives from the hurt sunk swell inside your chest
Satisfied only once your spirit has been taken