In a car, backseat, peeking out the window, we can see for miles
You come to notice a mess of fur on the roadside
Once pink and shiny now black and spread out while
Drivers avert their eyes from the deer who seemed to be lazing
Red preceded by a crack of sound
Tendons spilling to the ground
Days, weeks, months, it's very hard to tell
I've been like this since I first limped to hell
And my soul split upon impact
My ribcage caught the fender
Warn down by the asphalt
I was thrown off to the side of the road
Where I slipped into a dream of falling off a very tall building
I was a human, not an animal
But once my spine splintered as I hit the pavement
Some onlookers came over and laughed at the timing of my death
The sound my spine made was comedic gold
Someone recorded it to make sure I died and my pain lived on
Each glowing face burned my remains with laughter
And cannibalized my spirit as it tried to crawl from my corpse
The ghost floated away with its eyes closed
And let itself slowly move across a world of warmth and people to a cold foreign ocean full of Icebergs
That almost looked friendly
It came to rest on the iceberg, which seemed to have familiar features to that of a human
The iceberg creaked and splashed, and the ghost told stories
But the iceberg began to crack
And the ghost watched its friend split apart
He dipped into the water
And went down where it was coldest
No corpse could match the chill
Parallel the spirit, the silhouette swims
With splintered spine the ghost dives deeper until the blackness
Underneath all that ice
***** it in through the schism
Dec 17, 2017
Dec 17, 2017 at 5:42 AM UTC
In a car, backseat, peeking out the window, we can see for miles
You come to notice a mess of fur on the roadside
Once pink and shiny now black and spread out while
Drivers avert their eyes from the deer who seemed to be lazing
Red preceded by a crack of sound
Tendons spilling to the ground
Days, weeks, months, it's very hard to tell
I've been like this since I first limped to hell
And my soul split upon impact
My ribcage caught the fender
Warn down by the asphalt
I was thrown off to the side of the road
Where I slipped into a dream of falling off a very tall building
I was a human, not an animal
But once my spine splintered as I hit the pavement
Some onlookers came over and laughed at the timing of my death
The sound my spine made was comedic gold
Someone recorded it to make sure I died and my pain lived on
Each glowing face burned my remains with laughter
And cannibalized my spirit as it tried to crawl from my corpse
The ghost floated away with its eyes closed
And let itself slowly move across a world of warmth and people to a cold foreign ocean full of Icebergs
That almost looked friendly
It came to rest on the iceberg, which seemed to have familiar features to that of a human
The iceberg creaked and splashed, and the ghost told stories
But the iceberg began to crack
And the ghost watched its friend split apart
He dipped into the water
And went down where it was coldest
No corpse could match the chill
Parallel the spirit, the silhouette swims
With splintered spine the ghost dives deeper until the blackness
Underneath all that ice
***** it in through the schism
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