The Hairy Palms of Rocket Raccoon

A Poem by Cahjli Symes

I wrote this to an instrumental called "Threads" by the band This Will Destroy. I'd recommend listening to this while reading the poem to add atmosphere www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdqT3MDAG2w

Bang

I was pushed away on a hot
Summer's night due to me not knowing pain

Pain that boils hotter than
A thousand suns

My mind burns to dust as we
Perish into lust

These dark teenage nights, thoughts of
Agony and pain

But all I wanted was you
Beside of me

Dark nights alone as I'm
Burning within

Watch as the flames rose of
The phoenix

The bright flame that rises
And falls and the ability to mark us all

With deceit in consent
We burn the dark to to feed the light

The fire rise

The phoenix falls

Is to you

The truth of loneliness tells all

The sadness of being awake at night staring at the wall, wanting it all

The world to crumble in your fear as you know we're not here

Yet we own the night

We feast on pain

I wake you up

We sleep in shame

Our lighters up

We smoke the pain

That eats us up

We drift in space

Our lighters up!

Release our pain!

Onto the world!

Destroy our fate!

What's left inside

You love to hate

We own the night

We bought the day

We sold the weekend

We died today

Young couple in love

Adolescents in fear

We inhale the ashes

Exhale the shame

My mind is a bird cage

That's been twist up in faith.