Blood Smeared Mirror

This infection runs deep

Runs straight through my blood

I can't keep it contained

And I find that even the thickest hearts

Can get burnt to a crisp

So I float away, float back to her

She rebuilds my heart with fake smiles

Then tears it down with one piercing gesture

Knocks me straight back to this painful state

My reflection in a blood-smeared mirror

Draws me near the surface of this pool of tears

And I break free, back to my home

Where I was raised knowing that our days are limited

As I look up to the stars at night

I cry, someone wipes the tears from my eyes

A tissue of sympathy

But I push it away

I need this now,

To know why I mourn

Why I cry

For someone that destroyed me

It must have been love

But its been burnt to crisp

I'm here waiting

For the ashes to wake

So I can take flight again