a little candy ring and a mystic ocean's shell
but they were anesthetized
and slowly washed away
and left all the poison in the sands in which I played

I don't mind falling down and scraping up my knees
scars and stitches always fade and only strengthen me
but with my eyes as wide as pearls
my only centerpiece
is taken like a dead man's urn and tossed into the sea

write me letters but dot your i's and cross your t's
nothing was everything to me
under the monster's claws and in between his teeth
was the shadow of a silhouette
of what I thought I'd be