I washed the blanket today
The one that touched your naked skin
You didn't leave a trace
Except for the way that you marked
Everything you touched
Now I watch the waves crash in
From the highway and I relegate
All that you were to the ocean
The unforgiving mother that can nullify us all
That discards the graveyards of jellyfish still stinging
Devourer of rings of abandoned vows
I'm left with the death your smile foretold
Strega
Strega
Strega
Strega
Strega
Strega
Strega
Strega
No obfuscation to hide behind
This wound would bleed through affectation
I longed for you and you are gone
A catalyst for loss worth gaining
Necessary devastation
Upon this flesh, the tower drawn
Upheaval of sacred untruths
I still love my enemies
And sometimes I still miss you
The ghosts renewed
Echo screaming from the sunless blue
Recalling waves of desolation
Crashing, drawing down the moon
Conjurer, unreckoned darkness brought to light
The shades of fate called forth hatred
As the glimmer left her eyes
Surmising, harvesting the whirlwind
The waiting seeds in fractal chaos flowered
From that spectral sin
I wash my hands of nothing
And now I return, filthy, to the bed I made
That I may die in all alone
But the spell you cast still rests upon my bones
The opened gate, the uncontained
This black terrain becomes my home
From across this great divide
I watch the past recede like tides
And if it always comes again
That's trouble for some other time
And like straw becomes a flame
These chasms open up in the mundane
And the abyss that gazes back
Greatest horror is that it is sane
And if to mourn the living
I must become the dead
To remember what you were
Must I forget?
If the only word is silence
We've become its screaming choir
And any utterance we gave
Was more kindling on the fire
That licks us like a wound
Not to heal but to consume
Black is the ghost
In every empty room
The fabric of the marring ties
The sadness of the march of time
Every scar a thread that weaves
The tragedy of love that's blind
Becoming what we always were
Unfolding every waiting hurt
In emanations of illusion
Kaleidoscopic walking dirt
Spirit trapped within a shell
On a road to nowhere else
And from this place of good intent
I can only say I wish you well
(We are the damned)
But we held each other sometimes
(We are the damned)
And our arms became like chains
(We are the damned)
And hell is other people
(We are the damned)
Now we walk this black terrain
Now we walk this black terrain
Now we walk this black terrain
Now we walk this black terrain