Ashen Scabland - Immortal Bird

You wear your shield of crust

Face creased with years of rust

Ribcage filled with cement

Two decades of resentment

Bit my tongue

Choked on blood

A mess no one mopped up

Hard not to scream

When steel wool

Is your blindfold

And you can’t find what’s hidden

No one said you had to stay

Crippling fear of solitude

Squalling bastard in your way

Three isn’t company

I won’t reconcile

Or show my throat

Part of the curse

You proffered me

Am I a blister on your heel?

Or a limp you can’t hide?

Or a vessel for your vitriol?

A cup that runneth over

This isn’t what you want

But time’s not on our side

Where do you think you’ll go when you die?

I’ll chew on glass

I can’t swallow my pride

Walk through the door

I’ll leave through a window

I should see someone

But that means learning where I went wrong

It kills me too

It kills me more than it kills you

When half of me is you what part of me is left to trust?

I’m imprisoned by your name

And your generosity

Olive branches burn on the pyre

For every inch you’d always raze a mile

One step forward

Two steps back

Falling swiftly to snap my neck