SOMETHINGlikeHUMAN

My lungs have chilled, it's hard to inhale But it's of no matter, you've my breath A warm breeze turned frigid gale As the leaves of summer, so shall I await death The most vibrant oceans framed in black They seem to pierce right through me Aligned the lashes batting back This killing stare burned indelibly The static grey of dreams never known An amber light now cuts through Waking warmth, though vague, is my own To rise against the dawning blue This heart finds pain, yet was once without Life finds these veins, they were once dried out Beneath a burning sky I'm reminded of mortality Bellow a tired sun Ever present vulnerabi

Designed with imperfection Constructed incomplete, the product of frail conception An abject and hollow achievement I am the misguided procession Of divinity, came a vile blasphemy Accompanied by a void that's to remain for eternity A void so perfect prevents me from being as so I am the infernal effigy A patient interim, needless temptation A banquet of treachery To be served with the poison fruit you bore Predestined abortion What I became was by your hand Without black, white would cease to be Though far too much, you lent unto me Hands that bare the markings of shame and scorn I am the undying agony Decency sacrificed wit

We watch with empathy, as gold doth rust The shame of fading light We watch with apathy, fall the shards of trust The lack of will to fight Contagion siphons down the line Ingested torment filters throughout time Day to day, and night by night Hours hold the validity of fright Our confused hearts remain in pieces Hollowed eyes long to wane once more The grasp we hold is merely our thesis Unhallowed shells to line the floor Poison passed as if it was wine Blight inhaled as if it were fine Hide within the smoke For it will fill your lungs Failed escape, you choke Speechless, swallowed tongue We'd cut ourselves to heal Backwar