I dream of you every night
Of the silence thick with knives
A cold room
A broken door
A promise lit with gas
I close my eyes and I’m there
I never left
I’m right here
Hiding
I’ve known this panic
I left
I’m not here
My body holds
My memories in perturbation
A heart pounding
to run away
It doesn’t matter where I stay
The feeling hunts me down
What are you racing to, little girl?
Stop and smell the roses
They cannot reach you
Where are you going, little girl?
Something beautiful is growing
She cannot breach here
I’m so very tired
I want to lie down
But even in my sleep I’m running
Lucifer’s Halo 