Sleepy daze Lilac light Bright In Deaths Valley where purple petals and purple lips Part at the touch of His skeleton key finger That turn chests wide open To release souls from their broken captors Dissipate Not even a firework show for good effort
Eyes wide open and I see everything you can’t seem to say with purple lips so cold and frightened There’s a thousand white dots and a thousand sound layers beneath the color Endless The red veins floating amidst your token bad eye staring straight into the ceiling fan As if it’s going to lift you up, spin your brain And attempt to unjumble the jigsaw puzzle of different words and phrases and opinions That pollute you Uproot what you’ve known to be true Since your slate was paved Since your fingers touched the invisible air Of unwritten possibility The wall is grey The lilac sits on your chest Its purple and I’m as blue as the deepest corner of the skies rocket ship neck That crevice fingers pet to coo goosebumps out from their nervous cells Where I’m hidden And quiet quiet quiet Don’t part your purple lips I’m hidden
Your fingers graze the bed Like it’s planning on plotting seeds That will hopefully grow And I’m alive I’m a life I’m enlightened I’m not growing you said I’m crooked you said I’m not well rested you said And the lilac sits alone in your bedside garden Where no other plants dare to sprout And your hands turn into stray roots That weigh heavy like limp corn stalks Frayed at the edges as they approach your ghastly cemetery And all I can say is I’m sorry Futile words from purple lips that Death doesn’t silence but caresses With his skeleton key finger Pursing them into a tight grip That lets you know but doesn’t let you go