Have pierced the gauze
I kept to catch
A tearful pause
It tears at me
With velvet claws
Caresses me
With aching jaws
This bind is deep
With riddled laws
Cold compress won't
Cool down the thaw
Glacial warbles
Sing like saws
With words so cordial
Sting me raw
I'm leaking my secrets
Into doorsteps worth keeping
And praying to doormats
That no one is peeking
I sing to myself
But it sounds just like shrieking
I'd care 'bout my health
If it wasn't defeating
Bones can't hold up this frame that is waning
My throne's been stolen and fear is gaining
I'm strung out of tune in a song that's refraining
I'm dancing on petals to the rhythm that's raining
Drip, drip, drip, from my eyes
I grip, grip, grip, for the skies
I'm ripped, ripped, ripped, by what died
So I trip, trip, trip, when I try
Keys jingle-jangle, aristocrat chain
I'm fit to mangle, 'cause I'm used to pain
Feeling the strangle, I try to stay sane
Medicine dangles, and melts out in rain
And I don't care what the seasons say it is
And I don't care why reason prays
And I don't care what act this play is in
I'm only feeling when I stray
I measure time by lack of sleep
I measure moments by when I weep
I measure sadness by when I breath
I measure madness by what I see
Hands fly by on a measured face
Their fingers spelling clues that I cannot trace
Three palms sculpting out what they won't replace
And their nails etching out such an empty fate
Clappin' their hands with a heavy weight
Givin' me time that don't fit my gait
Prayin' to the clock for an empty slate
But it's knockin' on my door keepin' me awake
Wanderlust commands my soul
I'm a leather tramp with a rubber soul
I keep my head in the stormy shoals
And I keep my heart in a box of gold
Down, down, down, I go
Drown, drown, drown, sorrow
I, am, crowned, by what I know
Always losing when I grow.
-DION VOX
