Slow Motion Murder

Haven't you already died
I asked her once, though never tried
Everything I ever knew
Was meant to be with you

No comfort writ nor underlined
Thus everything is undefined
Pierced and slit and blooded dry
I dared not ask her why

Dawn she fell on whimpered minds
More settled now than lost in time
Drained of hope and freed of woe
As lives they come and go

For sake of reason we were drowned
As silent as forbidden sounds
We made no hollow haunted threat
No, life presides me yet

And fever, what am I to thee
We set our sails at riven seas
So vividly evoken
All lies remain unbroken

No sullen sunken master
Was meant to dream disaster
Like mothers wear their children
We were forced to feign and flee

No passage barred, no windows jailed
Though comatose, we tried and failed
No different sins from love and crime
We're only biding time

All postures spent, a slow descent
Ravenous she has all but bent
Our fires fade, our passions grey
And love no further than today

Dost thou flicker, heaven dear?
Without you I am struck with fear
Hope is lost and out of sight
As love by candlelight

This fragile final chapter
These dreams of ever after
The void in which we turn
Have left me somewhat burnt

All eyes went acandid
All lips went ashine
All memories lost
To a world that was mine

On top of deathless screams
I hear you slumber
Amidst this silence
Echoes war