Marionettes - Cloud Rat

Down in silence

Holding onto hollow

Savior unstrung and dumb

Why do I keep thinking?

Let me have this

All the hidden lilies in our yard

I remember waking up in a sweat

Pearlesque gleaming;

Being pulled like teeth

I can see faint colors reflecting back at me

As I stare down at my hand

My birthstone, the one my anya told me was mine

Mute, I see her dark eyes

Heavy snow, let me apply pressure now

Flowers of the abyss

Keeping out all the light

I hide from my mom