Scandinavian Flowers

You hold me with an ice-cold eye

Is this what forgiveness feels like?

This is the castle of my skin

This is the temptation I draw to me

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Cold eyebright on a summer morning

I think I see clearer now

Through this parasite of flowers

Into the echoing dawn

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I am the danger of dreams

I am the years of lost heat

I am the vine the creeps slowly

I am the idea that sleeps furiously

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Killer for a warm touch

Destroyer of a kind embrace

Born terminally on these flower's lips

Lost in the memory of a kiss

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Your gaze breaks and I follow

This is the indifference I know

This is the winter I remember

This is the flowering eyebright