i feel the weight of everyone i've ever met.
every word i've ever swallowed,
every ache felt in silence.
i can have all this inside me
and to you, it's just words.
i'm searching for something i'll never find.
maybe within this warm confine, i will.

dilute me
make me
easier to hold
i'm slipping through their fingers
aren't i?

let me out
if to rot
it can't be agony as far as i can see

these days are long

haunt this empty house that i
found hope
in you
all the masks i wear are so pretty
unaware

every mirror smiling back at me
doves fly out
doves fly out