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reaching upward

until the skin tears off these arms

a distant light of mine

is all that's left

and i'd bury my nails in your eyes

feel my sorrow run between my fingers

to take away the longing

on sheets of embers in the writhing blackness

sweat soaking through the fucking silk again

i wander, longing and lying still

a mind raped to bleeding by words

there is no respite

the gaping maw above this hole

once all the sky to me

is little more than a distant star

my fingers grazed and nails split

from the endless climbing

my back is broken from the fall

stone's throw from the blame

an ocean away

too far to swim, but not to drown

on sheets of embers in the writhing blackness

sweat soaking through the fucking silk again

i wander longing and lying still

a mind raped to bleeding by words