• siren song •

I broke my own rules for you
coming up above the water
to seek out the shadow
that blocked the light

and found you there searching
lost between two worlds
with one foot in the water
and the other on the shoreline

so we swam in our sea of sin
and I wanted so much for it to mean something
to be a place you had not been
inevitably giving more than I had to give

exposing my healing one button
one seam, one thread at a time
unveiled and laid out bare so you could lose yourself
then find yourself inside

an act of love
that only knows to leave me hollow
lost in waters too cold, too deep
and too far from home to survive

they will paint me as the sinner
yet I too want to find the thing that shines
but I am often merely a distraction, a myth
or just a guide

a way to get to all the things
you’d forgotten how to find
then left to tread in the water
discarded, denied

and I hear the boats coming closer now
it’s not yours though, not this time
I broke my own rules for you
and now I pray the price

the blood
& the bones

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