It takes a beating

To filter through

It pulls you in

(Place your hiding eyes)

It pulls you in

(Gently into mine)

How many pages will turn

Until the book is burned

It pulls me

(you pull me in)

Maybe I’m just sick

These chemicals have no place left to fucking stick

If you leave me here will the dose claw it’s way home

(It takes a beating)

You break

But I’m still here

I’d break myself to fix you

No way out

It’s pulling me again

I won’t

Won’t go back

Picture perfect inner workings

Slowly stripped away

Pills of burden

Rest upon me

Scratch these nails to break