With shadow wrapped around me like a chain,

Your light is bleeding slowly out of my soul

And the tender, gentle pain you’ve put me through

Without regret, forcing me to pay the required toll

As love casts my change into the gutter

To shatter the glass box we’ve built around us,

Shows the beginning of the end is near

(Revealed in the glass shards and flaking rust

Crumbling from the walls and my razors)

And I’m asleep with my eyes still staring open wide,

My scarred wrists still screaming pain in my vocal silence

Running from myself and hiding in my pride,

I fear this brokenness, fear the bleeding light,

And turn, to conceal my dripping wrists and heart from you;

The darkness binding me feels cold without your warmth,

And my soul weeps to feel the fading truth

In the rusted razorblades and torn promises

And the moments in memory grown dusty with time,

For how can we continue in a place so full of pain?

- Yet unable to give up the faith that you are mine

The pride in bearing the marks of your love,

And the bitter pleasure of being yours, no matter what they say –

I stumble in my bondage to night,

No diamond-star-studding to light my twisting way,

Only these tear-blurred eyes, for your light is lost,

And accompanied only by silence and night-shades,

I flee my fears to veil myself in greater terror

As the light in my soul bleeds away.