Bunny suit

It’s not about who I am

It’s about who you believe

The sea that seems calm to the seal

Is turbulent to the penguin

And beautiful to some version of me

Everyone gets a piece of me

Most of them get a similar piece

There is no doubt if all notes coincide

It's just a way to entrap

To show the seal

Or let the penguin collapse

Some people are wolves

Others are sheep

And they all lie

Who am I?

I guess that depends on who you ask

A new version of me

There is no version that I love

Some versions are better than others

Most are annoyingly plain

I pretend they’re bearable

Like water to moisten a dry piece of bread

The book is sad

Telling a story with no direction

No hope, no beauty

A few failed attempts at a happy trail

But the pages are all I have

They say nothing of interest

Yet I find solace in the emptiness of their words

A small rush as my fingertips brush against each page

Searching for something to entertain

The song between the noises

I don’t care about the ending

Expecting change is an illusion

I just want to see the final page

I just want the story to end

Candlelight

A candle is held by many hands

Any sort of person can use its light

Forever compelled to obey

The candle may never choose

It simply goes from hand to hand

Wasting away with each touch

Until it is no more than a faded memory

Of something once needed, but never wanted

Slowly and completely

Until the light goes out

Lovefool

I’ve been corrupted

I see through black eyes

My innocence was lost long ago

I have no more allies

You’re obsessed

You want it to stop

It’s not real

But it’s all I’ve got

If you pretend

I’ll get more than I deserve

It’s not what I dreamed

It will have to be enough

Just pretend

Make it real

Say it again

Until I believe

It won’t work

But I have to try

Then I’ll be gone

Then I’ll be alright

Re-Arranged

I could never stop it

It was always hiding in the deep

Slowly consuming me

Please come close

Fall quickly

And wash the pain away

It’s already at the surface

I see it

And I know what I’ve become

Please come close

Fall quickly

And wash the shame away

It continues to putrefy

Rotting my insides

I’ve been unmade

Please come close

Fall quickly

And wash the hate away

Soon I will not heal

There will be nothing left

The time is near

Please come close

Please

Please

Just close your eyes

Every time I get a glimpse of it

I see beauty

I see happiness

And all the rainbow-covered wonderfulness of what could be

Just barely out of reach

It creates a hunger in me

An unexpected eagerness to live

It’s only a glimpse

An obsession that takes root in the deep

Until one true fact becomes clear

I will only ever look and never have

I remember why I keep closing my eyes

Always wanting it

Never wanting to want it

Forever yours

In no way mine

Naive

I keep coming back to you

It may seem inevitable

I could stop

I could leave

It’s a wonderful kind of agony

Relieving ice on burning flesh

The sweet sound of nothingness

A strong hunger beckoning

It is done by my design

I seek you out actively

You will always pull me down

For I have made you my gravity

The ice will only come

If flesh continues to burn

I can stop

I just don’t want to