After Death

By She Cries Wolf

On Liar

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I like to write things down but I don’t like to read them

I like to draw pictures but I don’t like to keep them

We tell ourselves we are special, well today I feel especially worthless


I sit and feel like every component of my physical form could serve a greater purpose than it’s used

For

I suppose the world is far too cruel to let us live in a fantasy for too long


Reality eventually sings her funeral song


Lately I feel as hard as diamonds, but with none of their shine

Lately I could murder men and bathe in their blood

I could cut this failure into my flesh and salt the wound to death


This gaping hole in my chest just breathes fire, just breathes unrest


But how do I rest? How do I breathe? And will I ever truly forgive?

Maybe I’ll never truly be free; now that you’ve let him see a side of you that was meant for me

You were supposed to be the one I walked through heaven and hell with


I’m a martyr, slain by lions in front of mocking sinners

I’m a slave, beaten like a dog until he begs for mercy

I’m a cancer patient, weakened by disease and the treatment he endures

I’m the father, and the mother


Sometimes I feel like I was born doomed for hell or made perfectly for heaven

It’s black or white

It’s life or death

Always binary options and polar opposites, but life is grey


Made perfectly for heaven


I’m sleepless nights, thoughts taunting you as you beg for a seconds rest

I’m her smile when she delivered the final blow