everything shifts

feel the emotion run

and fall off my skin

like sweat/blood/tears

consumed by the fears of indecision

left here to stand as guard

left here as bait

left here to drive the flood

back faster and faster

till the shoreline's past her

and into the water's edge along my eyes

call it in and fire up and upon it

the gritting

the gripping

the fits and the ranting

psychotic shots to your neck

eat your poison

eat your cure

eat your heart/mind/soul

eat yourself

wake up and walk amongst the dead

walking in the iris of the hollow

i am delivered

i am saved

i am salvaged and depraved

left behind to look

into your crumbling mirrors

held by handles at arms length

held by handles to keep

the heat off your face

let it run up your veins

like God and division

i'm asking to be taken

to be forsaken and forgiven

exiled and excommunicated

eradicated and loved

loved like religion and angry truths

the extremes i chose to live in

the seeds i chose to swallow

hoping to grow a tree from within

up and out of my skin

maybe i'll make some sense

when the time passes

when the sun sets

and i'm walking in between everything

the strings and words on the map

taken aback

taken back

torn and slack

you're holding onto the river

you're holding back

you're carving out your island

you're fucked

but you're free

and nothing is more powerful than that