Take apart the children’s fingers
Hang the flesh out to dry
Smell the sweetly jeweled blood
Listen to the baby’s cry
Grow up and send away
Childish ideas of fairy tales
Prince Charming won’t come to me
No need for more details
Just sally up to the garden walls
To tear the roses all apart
Let the petals flutter down
Open my chest, rip out my heart
Watch the blood drip from my fingers
Feel the barren emptiness inside
Something different from what came before
Years ago, my life had died
The empty sullenness
The bitterness, the sheer rejection
The intensity of the hollowness
Look into my eyes, closely now
Notice the blank stare there
The vacancy of the dilated pupil
See how I really just don’t care
-05/02-ish