It’s the Price of Being Us
I can see the blood on your hands,
The fear in your breath,
Desperate as you are,
You reach your hand out for me,
Cause I’ll always be foolish enough to take it.
A fool born on a night of loneliness,
I still feel the night’s wind brushing my skin,
Halted like magic,
By a woman with tender touch.
Tell me,
Who was it that told me no,
Satisfied to have someone they could cast their spell on?
Bewitched by their promise for a warm hand to hold,
Lips to meet theirs,
A bed to fall into,
Why would I choose to fade away?
Do I regret it now?
Don’t ask me questions like those.
I’m just a wolf,
With fur shaved and cut,
Claws cracked and paws smashed,
And a heart waiting to be collared.
Though,
Always sweet talking,
Always proving your place,
It was bound to make them angry.
If only you’d known your place,
If only you’d never been free.
Was that what they were thinking,
Aiming for your skull,
As their own reality came tumbling down,
The moment their piece of meat was different than they’d imagined?
So blind they couldn’t see the gun in your hands?
Bloody,
Bloody,
Scared little killer,
Your face at the top of the list,
Knives sharpened in your name.
If you’re so afraid,
Show them your good side.
Become a beggar,
With tears loud and desperate.
Maybe if you hate yourself just enough,
They’re sure to give forgiveness,
A payment for an ego’s feast.
But should you fail at the first step,
Should they see through your filthy ruse,
Does that mean you’re unforgivable?
That you’re broken and unusable?
That you never deserved to be born?
Don’t ask me questions like those.
I’m just a kitten,
With teeth sharper than words,
Tongue softer than warmth,
And a heart screaming for your touch.
I’m begging you to melt with me.
Show me every piece of you.
Smiles,
Bruises,
Bloodstains,
Make them pieces of me too.
So when your soul is ripped from your flesh,
And the audience clap their hands so ecstatic,
They won’t see the pieces I’ve stolen for myself,
Not a single one,
As we live deceitfully in the shade under their sun.
Reborn as one,
Rotting in the dark.