Downstairs Episode

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I took the knife then watched her bleed.
There I stood above the blood she bled and tears we shed

dripping upon the hardwood floor.
You're all I want to please

my selfish dreams, rotting in our obsessive needs.
Self loathing in my own despair

in my attempts to spare you.
Hoping for a life in which we'd both can care.

To give my love a stare,

below the creaky stairwell,
beneath the cellar door;
as she takes her final breath.
Alas, a kiss, I bid my love, farewell...

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