Werewolf

Your fingers in my hair

Trembled before the change

I held on as you slipped

Into something strange

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There’s something inside you

Lingering as it sizzles about

The fingers that clutched

Are claws ripping out

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I know you want to tell me

Something I don’t want to hear

They’re talking about you

Those voices I cannot bear

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Mourning you the day you left

But you’re still here

I can feel you close

I can feel you near

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Watching you leave

In a different form

A silent leap

A night we were torn

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You’re still here

How can you miss

Your cries in the night

Of someone that still exists

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I leave my window open

Every noise I think is you

Coming back home to me

Yet these thoughts are untrue

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A curse you told me

I plug my ears

A cure is irrelevant

The moon plagues my fears

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A fever turned to a chill

A body out of name

A metamorphosis

The cells not quite the same

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You were still just the same

A boy to a beast

A cry out in the night

The insects abruptly ceased

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You are near

Yet so far away

Us rolling around in bed

It was how we would pray

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Heavy breathing

Lips brushed against

Fists tangled into hair

Releasing as we tensed

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The love I miss

The yearn to have you still

The noise the rattles me awake

I know you’re at my windowsill

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The scratching grows louder

Beneath a full moon’s glow

I left it unlocked

You already know

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I mourn what is still breathing

You died under that sky

Every night I hear you

But never your goodbye