Skin by Skin

You're out alone

You have no one

The streets are cold

Long gone the sun

Shelter is yours

Just come with me

Oh, I mean no harm

I just want to give you eternity

Step through my door

It's warm inside

Ignore the stench

Of rotting hides

This room is now

Your resting place

Where first to start?

Your hands or face?

Skin by skin

You've been chosen

Skin by skin

Interwoven

Know too late your time has come

The knife is out, the blood does run

Jugular, a blast of red

Not soon enough you join the dead

Skin by skin

You've been chosen

Skin by skin

Interwoven

Sewn together with pieces past

Eyeholes peering, mouth's vacant gasp

Flesh stripped, meat aside, in fly swarmed mounds

Screaming, flesh gone, teeth scattered around

Intersected strips of gore

Line the walls forevermore

Pieced together methodically

I lick the stitches as they bleed

Skin by skin

You've been chosen

Skin by skin

Interwoven