A stranger to you but

I've known you forever you're my flesh and blood

You gave me this life and made me hate you for it

The distance in years but time is a cloud and a whisper

The anger gives way to a sickness

for a home that I've never known

Alien innocence

Face down 'til you make me forget how to breathe

Tongue tied so I bind you unwilling to me

Fear not the voice of the serpent inside

We'll stand still and pray

for the storm to subside and leave us soon

The fear of the dark no warmth in the arms of a monster

A chemical contacts' course of incision

Your fragile refrain the seconds they chisel our lives away

like a sick circadian conundrum.

Will you leave me alone again

knee deep in hopeless despair?

Will you waste your days in hiding

haunted by memories of me?

Finally your one shot and love but you blew it.

Darling you failed failure

And pain is all you have left