Chrysalis

Every day it seeps a little deeper

I have it in me now

I carry your mark and your curse

Heartrot creeps

Withers tainted sleepers

I know every day it gets a little worse

A little worse

From without, the torrent's fierce erosion

The undertow scouring from within

Hollow rapture spreads like corrosion

Mouldering me under my skin

My skin

Veins writhe

Bones tremble

Am I dead already

Or only excarnating

Gravid pulse

Something wants to waken

I wilt and wane

Into a membrane thinned

Between debauch leeching the taken

And septic rain

This day's poisoned twins

Twins

Mind bends

Breaks, disassembles

A chrysalis incubating

Cast away, barely alive

Mind bends

Breaks, disassembles

A chrysalis incubating

Cast away, barely alive