Keeping my secrets to myself
Locked in the deepest corner of my mind...

Your warm words left me feeling cold,
Reminiscent of years gone by...

Life walked out
Leaving behind this shell...

Can you hear them crying?
Children dying...

I don't want or need your words,
Bury them inside...

Hidden deep beneath my skin,
A person most can't see...

When I go down,
I go all the way...

Lips, hands, fingers,
Trying to satisfy their hunger...

Like clockwork
You spill into my mind...

Ubiquitous thoughts
So inescapable...

What is this pain which holds me now,
Can I let it go...

Down to the river
Where always I go...