Searching for a Pulse

Searching for a pulse

Skin pulled tight

Veins stretching to reunite

Life stops in rhythms you can't decide

Try not to convulse

Morbid disarray

All up in flames right in front of my fucking face

Remove the dirt before the roots have grown

This is true alone

Giving room for the lungs to decompress

Shoulders crumble at the bone beneath the stress

I should have never let it get to this

I should have never let it get to this

Fuck

Screaming for help, out of breath and out of time

Don't want to see where the next turn leads

Apprehensive, the worst has come alive

Burning nightmares repeat

Out of sight, out of mind

Out of God's favor

A stabbing fury like I've never known

Mortality bent until it breaks

Flatlined, reduced to words on a stone

Already gone, fully engulfed

Yet here I am

Begging them

To keep searching for a pulse

Skin and ash, death is indiscreet

Piles of life sit below my feet

Nothing to save, morbid disarray

Heaven avoids what lives underneath