Butterfly Massacre

Still breathing the same toxic air.
Still blind to your site by tears.
My heart, still beating your name.

If these walls could speak,
Would they tell our secrets?
Regale our fairytale?
Exploitation.

Say it; scream it; write it,
Burn the evidence.
Just keep pretending.

My eyes grow dark,
While my skin fades.
Transparency: trace my veins with blades.
Without sunshine, I'll fall to pieces.

I know you know, that I know, you know.
We both know.
It's dangerous.

Wolf in the woods,
Your tracks are visible.
Camouflage;
Ghost of a shadow.

Rush to nowhere; collapse.
Butterflies dodge knots inside.
Don't choke.

"Care to go again?"
(No, how could you ask such a thing?
I want nothing of the kind.)
"For you, anything."

So peaceful.
So cold.
Are you dreaming?

Bite the hand that feeds,
Keep chasing what you can't have.
Think the thoughts that you thought you knew.
Keep running from nothing but, yourself.