i let the ashes be ashes
but you inhabit
the grave i have yet
to settle in

i let you in
to everything

you are the undertow
that pulls me in
the dark shadow
that i sleep beside

you bide your time
and at the crucial moment
spread those dark wings
and fly

i wear your face on my wrists
you're inked on my brain
alive in my mayhem
burned in my skin

i've never been the same
all the distant years of coming clean
are just the train on the veil
of the day you betrayed me