Cuturebra

In the hallway down the staircase

Slowly opening the creaking door

Someone comes along and smiles

And for a moment all is quite the norm

Avoiding all the crowd below the sound of conversations spin

And patiently I wait in every corner for someone to come in

Dry'd in dust on darkened floors

A gasp resists with every buried breath

Watching shadows through the cracks

Of light that shape and sway with every step

So carefully and quietly and with an undetected hand

In comes a breeze it sweeps

The room and follows with a distant slam

Donned in bath kerchief the

Chambermaids unlock and let the daylight in

She spoke of trees, and creeping things

And nestled foundlings in the starlight crib

With an unsaving clench a bribe

Under the cloak is unconcealed

And all her secrets now belong

Forever to whom she revealed

We build on wretched ruins thinly

Veiled below our skin & bones

Cowards, sing each other's rhyme

And add a verse of all your wicked moans

It starts off as a whisper and grows

Into the deepest battle cry

Pressing ears and spying eyes

Await the beast we're nurturing inside

Questions fly and so do I, the hole

Fills with our harshest stones unturned

'Neath the cardhouse all my kings

Are buried and the queen won't say a word

We plant the tales, they feed on us 'til

Accusations earn their wings

Sold out for sharpened tongues

And spit into the air these creeping things