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Ghost of a shell, shell of a ghost

I see your ghost everywhere The ghost of who you once were Before all the shit went down in your brain The beauty that flowed from you till you woke up from the dream that was your life That dream shattered right out Right out from under you Made you want to forget Forget who you were All brought for nought Fragments still rattle Behind your eyes Those candy rock promises someone whispered in the night Lost that luster, didn't they? Couldn't find the silver lining? What was once radiant phosphorescence Became gangrenous and insipid Leaving a malodorous taste Stagnant in your mouth The feast turned to crumbs left for the rats under your skin You become to stately for our  unostentatious life Now you've painted the Petunia's colors of your choice Rearranged your furniture To play at being all grown-up Bit of turpentine blotted on the canvas might smear the lines But that won't erase your past Your fingerprints are etched into Every discarded can of spray paint Lips carved into the pores of to much skin You'll slice them off to get rid of the feelling Keep up your newly minted fascade That caused you such strife To grow in the petri dish Under your mothers sink While you tryed to burn your Bridges to ashes Ashes embedded forevermore under your fingernails Now you linger in ghosts Haunting cities you've never been to Places you're naught to see In them breathes a Chilly air wishing to keep you alive
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