Monster

18 Oct 2022

·menoh

Internal scars you cannot see As you cut another into me I carry on as you watch me bleed Each falling drop a tainted seed I will carve my name into the frozen earth To remind the world I am more than the image of hurt Or the stain of my birth, The songs I sing will be different now, Carried on the wind to the hearths all over this town, I made it somehow Dangers around, the stranger is me From this dark town, I’ll never be free Fractured dreams litter the ground, That kindred face will never be found I will bleed my soul into the bitter air To paint their eyes with my name that’s living in fear, But still wants to care, I will take each slur as a slice of the blade Bleeding me slowly ‘til my debt for existing is paid It’s how I was made

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I am a button pusher. I stir up trouble. It is what I do. I live in the borders between light and dark. I can write about beautiful things, and joy and love, but I find I am more creative when i write about the dark. I love to hold a mirror up to the...

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