Decrepit Canyons
I long to lead you to the psychosis of your existence
Toward the ill repute of your identity something amiss has transpired
I would rather wish you gone before too much is said
I would rather wish you gone before too much is said
I long to lead you to the barbed wire crawling around my fingers
Or perchance you rather fancy the sun-set epigone
As you have taken much and I so little
As you have taken much and I so little
I long to lead you to my inimitable skeleton assortment
Of primordial fossils and domestics departed
Highland mammals unknown
Highland mammals unknown
I long to lead you to my rickety heights
To the sheer drop from which they have risen and fallen
The decrepit canyons chilled with black fog
The decrepit canyons chilled with black fog
I long to lead you to the fingers scratching the backbone
Every tip stroke leaving a detailed marking
They possess your hidden origin
They possess your hidden origin
I long to lead you to my clouded eyes that see all
And the squalid corrosion that cakes my lungs
Through the cavity I was born
Through the cavity I was born
I hunt for you…in the decrepit canyons chilled with black fog
I hunt for you…in the decrepit canyons chilled with black fog
I hunt for you…in the decrepit canyons chilled with black fog
I hunt for you…in the decrepit canyons chilled with black fog
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2014
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