It's been staring me in the face and I never even noticed it
Just now my mind clicked together
A gear that's been spinning by itself
Now fits together with another just like it
You can look at the world from under a heavy atmosphere
But you can't ever go out there without something to carry you
Carry you away from here
Once I said your name I couldn't stop repeating it
It was a mesmerizing echoalia of someone I loved
Over and over and over again it flew out of my mouth
Off my tongue, sometimes a feather, other times a nail
Spearing it and making it die
Eyes open very wide
Dry and red from staying up all night
Watching for one movement
Never blinking, never even drooping
There's an untouched patch of dust, never swept over
Unnoticed in an empty house,
Empty shell
Never been stepped in for decades
Until now
Creaking stairs make disturbing noises in the silence
Someone's following you
Someone unseen of the darkness
You turn around, expecting to see a long lost friend
Playing a joke on you
Instead you see nothing but invisible wind
Dead wind, just a silhouette of a shadow
It's tired tears and dried blood
That makes this creature live
If life were on a chalkboard, able to be erased
When a mistake is made
It's never death you face
But the guilt of the things you've done,
'Cause life isn't on a chalkboard
Written by crumbling chalk
A single flame inside a still-warm ember
Won't ever stop burning
Footprints on a beach so many of them
Count them if you have a head for numbers
Jumbled together, don't make sense unless they're words
Choking on dust and regret
Waving at something that isn't there
Through the window
Takes everything to believe in it
Takes everything you've got to believe in you
Walking down a path that never ends
Picking weeds from the sides, but they always grow up
Don't have enough strength to completely uproot them
Burning alive in doubts and death.
