Stranger

Stranger - Counterparts

Your ghost holds me close

As I'm ravaged by the solitary

That surrounds my former home

Use me until you've spent

The rest of my remains

And then try to

Validate your actions

Cursing every empty vein

That used to be inhabited

By your impression

Paralyze me to ensure

I have no chance

Of knowing the feeling of affection

It's no secret that

I've shed the common decency

That appoints the world

With the burden

Of devotion to our kin

I gave you everything I had

And the world has

Left me exhausted

So make me feel something

Anything that might

Change my mind

As worthless as I am

I know that I still

Serve a purpose

To leech off the light

And absolve my insignificance

Lay me to rest

Lay me to rest

Inside of a glass casket

So you can remember me

With a smile on my face

Adorning me in my own failures

So you can count them

As you stand above my bones

I wish I were a better man

I am a coward masked in courage

And just admitting this will

Not save me this time

So free me from my tired mind

And let me learn the difference

Between a single tear

And the runoff of an ocean

Weak and weary

From my predatory nature

So bless me with abandonment

In my greatest time of need

Let me carry on knowing

That I could never

Truly face my reflection

It's much easier to caress

The broken glass broken glass

Though if I accidentally catch

A glimpse of myself in the shards

I will put my faith

In the shrapnel

To correct my vision

I am a stranger when

I stare into the eyes

Of those I love

Look away in disgust

Protect yourself

From the sight of my deception

I am a stranger

When I stare into the eyes

Of those I love

Look away in disgust

Protect yourself

From the sight of my deception