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Did You Arrive Before the Fall

Your bones are charred black and your skin pulled tight, Red and sunken eyes, boasting filth and pain, hurt and loss. Betrayed on a bed of the cotton kingdom, Springs stick out like trees from soil. Did you arrive before the fall? Troy on his empire and you on your drugs, Each grave from the same effect. Blinds blinding dust from the peeking of eyes, No sun in a room no one’s known or left behind. Did you arrive before the fall? Needles and alcohol litter every inch of carpet, And you’re just another stain to its story. Tourniquet, oh tourniquet, can you bring the empty now? Don’t hold back, let it free, and flush the toxin to every vein. Did you arrive before the fall? Poison stock piled to the brim, I’m surprised you didn’t drown. Baring sin, bearing secrets and I wish you could’ve saved yourself. Falling to my knees and so much closer to your end. Did you arrive before the fall? A death you didn't attend.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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