“And I was in the darkness so darkness I became.“ - Florence + the Machine
I’m addicted to my own self-destruction
The emptiness opens up and swallows me
So I play my skin like a violin
The storm rages on much like the war between my head and heart
The darkness blankets the sky with ominous grey clouds
Flickers from the lightning beyond
Rain soaking me to my bones
The night reopens old wounds
We become slaves to memory
Reassurance dead like falling leaves
The scent of decay clings to the air
Only in my dreams do I see the deathlike pallor of your face
I am drawn to the void
Or just the absence of you
The darkness always finds me
When the world fades away
All that remains is suffocating silence
In the confines of my own torment
Pass into nothingness
For I seek the road to perdition
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Erin Barteski
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