Breathe Blood, Drown in Air

Savage, Savage

Screams fill my ears

Fire burns my eyes

Air claws it's way down my throat

This must be Hell I think

Because, if it isn't Hell

Then what is it?

Blood thick on my tongue

I run it along my teeth

Air drags through me,

Suffocating and Unsatisfying

As I lay dying

My deathbed,

A cold, snow-covered hill

I watch as stars fall all

Around me

And explode into pain-searing sparks

When can I die?

When does the pain end for me?

God, won't you take me?

Am I not good enough for that?

Have I failed you? Surely

I have

Here I am,

Staining your frosty tears with my

Tainted blood

Breathing blood and drowning in air

What a joke

My family lays around me,

Already taken into your arms

And I am left alone

To breathe in air that kills and

Drown in blood that heals

Life and Death are so

Backwards

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