Every Death - Johanna Warren

Beautiful stranger

You came along at the wrong time

I’m just a shadow

Of how you see me in your mind

And you’re a scavenger

Sniffing out the scraps of what I left behind

Much like the vultures

Circling over both our heads

Sooner or later

They know we’ll remember we’ve been dead

This whole time

I’m ruling the kingdom of the blind

So leave me alone now

I’m taking the medicine

I can’t be around anyone

I need to be silent in my skin

Dwell in the stillness

Feel only the movement of my breath

And how it affects the air

Molecules around my body

Their subtle circulation

Could sufficiently captivate

My attention for centuries

What else could we need, really?

I wanted to warn you

Said I’m carrying some trauma as my chest

Clenches into a fist

Pulled back and ready to swing

'Cause you kinda look like him

You got the same way

Of looking at me like you own me

And I used to like that I guess

But not anymore

Now it makes me feel like I am drowning

So don’t touch me

I’ve got more important things to do

And I couldn’t tell you

How good it feels to realize

That I never needed him

And I’ll never tell myself those lies

About what I need again

I don’t need anything at all

I already have it

Heaven exists in every breath

Within every moment

Is every birth and every death

That will ever happen

It’s already happened

It’ll happen again I guess