ashes, ashes!

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ashes, ashes! Ky

ashes, seeping through the skin, filling up the pores of my void

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ashes, seeping through the skin,
filling up the
pores of my void

it is suffocating
to breathe through
those dreams I have to burn,

my skin now smell of ashes
marked by the veins of my
burnt dreams

o' nobody knows, the pain of it
the scar over my beheaded soul
the loss of myself

but I know
i know of myself Yesterday.
&

you do, too,
you know who i was once

Today,
this girl who looks so much
like me,
she is a guest taking up my body

she looks at me,
through me, with my eyes
without recognition

this girl, she is painted
with the smell of burning ashes
an inescapable perfume
touched along her failed skin

and you smile, from inside
those ashes
as you rape another one of
her dreams

...

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