Blood, it flows
Systemic
But not slow
Under teeth and hair
Through the body
With care
Knows the heart
The brain
Every part
Not insane

Capillaries and
Tributaries
Beating like thunder
Life never stagnant
Makes you wonder
Why we can't
Stay under
Instead breathe loud
Listen to the clouds
Thoughts asunder

I think I'll sit here for a while
And let my troubles pile.
It's only been a couple years
And I'm just in denial.

I have a couple brand new fears
Some of them have led me here
Where I am blind, I cannot see
What all this chaos does to me.

I should fight this then be free
From the illness of misery
But I fail to find the time
In my head, my conscious crime.

Replenished by the world you crawled away from.
Sweetened by the tongue of your hypocrisy.
Revived by the whistle and bells.

Wake up.
Feel these whispers.

Hear me.
I am yours.

A dark friend lies to us all
with lips like white iron
and breath of rot

the echoes are louder for some--
     some lose

others keep on
fighting tooth and nail
shouting back with all their will

we cannot lose to a shadow
cast by this poisonous spire
we call doubt
confusion
pain
anything that drags us away
from what we already struggle
to hold onto

do not listen
do not look away
from the light that we all know
keep on the fight
we will make it

just as the darkness is adopted by us all
it is the light that has a place of
     belonging
we all know the pain
stay here and hear the truth
stay here and bask in this life
stay here

it is all here