Cover my body,
with tokens of empty promises,
gifted to me over dead years past.
Creep under the floorboards of forever,
just to be a mouse in a hole in the wall.
For eternity, chased by a cat.
Live for the sake of life,
and forget myself over its long course.
A path that is so winding, so binding,
I'm going to lose my shreds of sanity.
Bound to break the cords of my spine,
with a rope tying me back so tightly.
It's constricting.
I feel it always.
And if I should break my bones away,
no telling what ugly misshapen creature,
will reside in this skin.
What is left of yourself,
when you lay uprooted in a lightless,
lifeless form?
How to draw such poison from a wound?
I cannot bleed it away,
wish it away.
And so the vile creature waits,
until I close my eyes.