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The Dark Passenger

I have this tingling up my spine

This voice that pleads at me daily

This nagging that won't subside

 

I hurt myself

Saving you from a hell you created

I'd rather hurt you

Showing you what you deserve

 

I've made a beast out of myself

Caging things to enjoy the craving

Giving into one sin to make another subside

 

My hypocrisy sickens me

Yet I revel in it like a fine wine

In the fact that I can do this to myself

In the fact that this can be done to me

In the fact that I hide it so well that no one ever has a clue

 

I feel myself cracking down the center

Only half of myself can stand to hold back anymore

Only half of me is becoming smaller

Becoming nonexistent and loving it

 

Our contact is less

Making these voices rush on me like waves

Your face brings the images

Your voice brings the motive

Your actions bring the pain

 

You are the cactus I cling to

You are the thorn beneath my skin

You are the wound that I let fester

You are the cancer spreading within

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Written by
catherine-paige
American
Published
May 30, 2010
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This was written on February 17, 2009.

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