Strike ANYwhere

I was in love with a place that doesn't care
A time that won't exist (not even for me)
Fingernails digging deep
Peeling your image from my mirror
Like a praying mantis
Chewing off all my victims' heads
On your back convulsing, body stiffened
(look alive, you're looking dead)
you're watching my poison as it spreads,
leaving you (it is impossible to untangle the threads)

I swear, I think I came undone
when I wrote you that real love-stained poem
I used the cigarette to melt my skin
Ripped open my chest and found a pen
It's the truth (even if it didn't happen)
But there's a price to pay for the showing
Cause when you left, you took everything else
Do me a favor and fix my thorax (it's killing me)
Here's some string, but you're too busy sewing
your own life, timid and standing high and growing

I'd tear you apart and eat your limbs
Take my tender time and feast on you
Lay you out on my plate and wear a bib
Can't make a mess when dessert comes in
Pluck out your petals and suck your milk to drink
I'd empty you, but there's no doubt
You'll find a way to refill yourself
Even when you're forbidden to grow there
Like a dandelion, through the cracks you sprout
so that, sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out

With your hand clenched around my heart
like a fist, it reminds me of when
I tried to swallow you whole, you know
But you kept coming back up for air
In the deepest corner of my darkest mind
I tried to forget who you are
But like a mouthful of cavities
You keep eating away at my teeth
But I admit you're the best kind of scar
one moment your life is a stone in you, the next, a star.