Crawl on me with spider legs
Thunder thoughts, unleash the plague
Shout your secrets, lay your eggs
On your knees and beg

You cower in the corner, small
You hear my heart beat in the walls
Muscles tense while voices call
You drown me like a waterfall

Protective waves sweep my veins
Washing off the year’s bloodstain
To sow, then weep, then harvest grain
Until we’re weak, and welcome pain

Of all the past and lives foregone
I found you in each frightful one
My bones and teeth remember well
The haunting sound of the passing bell