Like the virus in my veins

A broken window pane

Jaws are locked into place

Mingled cup thrown in my face



I live in a house of clay

Violated and dismayed

I don't want to be a dream

In somebody else's sleep



It is only when I'm left alone

That I pervert what is sown

Blood and skin beneath my nails

Reflects the emptiness of hell



Then I squirm in my bed

Pull the sheets around my head

Soaking wet in a pool of sweat

Pray for me, I'm not dead



Take me out with the garbage

And don't you compromise

'Cause that's all we really are

Until we confess the lie