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Take Your Leave

 

Take Your Leave'

 

Plunge through the memories

With eyes sewn shut

The bitter slumber takes it hold

As your name

Mouths itself

At the back of my mind

Silent subconscious screams

 

This bed has become a cliff

I cannot escape

On the aerie of your nightmare

As I’m picked bit by bit

Slowly but surely

Placating your crave

 

Love always leaves a mark

Yours the deepest of all

Made sure of that

As your fingernails dance inside my skin

Splitting these ears in two

 

I can’t

I won’t

Go back to this

Even if the ground pulls

From under my slipping feet

 

Hush now

Not another sound

The crow’s nest of your words

Harvesting nothing but death

As your lies

And everything you stand for

Cascade down your mouth

In a molten drip

 

This is it

The door’s blown open

The winds of my defiance ready

Reminding you

To take your leave

And wipe your face clean from my heart

 

Teddy temple