Blood

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There's blood on my hands

Taking me to desperate lands

Where only the lonely can stand

Romanticize my bones

As if they're colorful healing stones

Count the hues and tones

And check the thighs

And feel the spine

Curse my size

I cry my eyes

Out every night

With all my might

But I'll never get it right

So there's this blood on my hands

From where I stand

I have no friends

They fled with the wind

When they saw my end

I saw no one in the mirror

So I starved to see a little clearer

And when I looked again

I saw a stranger in that mirror

I came nearer and nearer

Hoping she'd make me cleaner

But she starved me and fed me

And purged me till all that was

Left in that damn mirror

Was the blood on my hands.

- But she'll be the next one to meet her end.


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