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I
You laugh and you melt away,
The cold steel of your pain against my skin,
Are we both dying, or is it only you or I.
Fragments, pieces of my mind shattering,
Exploding in Catherine Wheels upon the night,
Golden light, showering down upon me.
Where are you now, I cannot see you,
Were you ever a star, or perhaps the moon,
Perhaps I’m the star, or the moon, or the sun.
We’ve passed now into shadow,
Passed into the light,
Contrasting against each other,
Light and Dark,
Together.
Perhaps I am mad,
Can you not feel my laughter,
Can you not heed your laughter,
Laughing merrily,
Merrily into darkness.

II
Do you caress my soul in the pale moonlight,
Or is it merely my skin that you embrace,
An empty husk or shell, devoid of love and light.
You do not need me, I do not need you,
Why then do we remain,
Holding hands in the darkness,
Suffering in the light.
Why do we not descend,
Surely we can.
Perhaps it is life that binds us here,
Perhaps it is love that keeps us here,

III
Pass by my way,
Spit on my head,
Anoint me with derision,
I will not mind.
Baptise me in pain,
And I will laugh,
For I am born of nothing.
But I laugh at my faults,
And I laugh at you,
Your silliness too.

IV
Vinegar eyes, marinated beneath cucumber tears.
My face is a mask, concealed behind the blackberries.
I laugh through lips stained with blackcurrent juice.
I scorn the howling wind, shielded in my garden.
The little ants will come and get me,
And carry me off to their nests.
And the butterfly’s will catch me,
And let me fall in the mud.
Liberation cries out of my lips then,
For I will no longer be trapped in the pheasant’s cage.

V
There's an exquisite corpse lying at my feet,
Its arms outstretched towards my thighs,
Grasping me in deaths grip,
It’s icy form congealed around my heart.

The subtle skeletons embrace me round my waist,
Hugging and laughing with tears they cling to me,
Holding me in fragile arms,
Their hands dancing over my skin with me.

The smokey cinders of ashes scattered through my hair,
Sticking to my hair and the wounds in my eyes,
Dusting, coating me forever,
Remaining upon me, long after the summer showers.

VI
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
Can you hear me ticking,
Ticking in your head.
Ghost of Madness,
Hear me now,
For I shall tick in your mind,
As you do tick in mine.

Tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip
Who left the tap on,
Inside my mind,
Where my mind is leaking,
Leaking through the holes in my head.
Leaking, tip tapping, tip tapping,
Who left the tap on inside my head.

Hush Hush Hush Hush Hush Hush Hush
Hush my dear, Hush my dear,
Do not fret, now hush my dear.
Lullaby’s soon will caress your dreams.
Hush now my dear, hush now,
Hush now and go to sleep.

Hark Hark Hark Hark Hark Hark
Hear the owl hooting in the tree,
Hooting for my death,
Hooting now for my eternal sleep.

VII
Hands grasping, clawing at my throat,
Seeking to rip from it, all my use of speech.
Claws outstretched to scratch and tear me,
They are but my own.

Water gushing through my brain,
Drowning logic, leaving muddy confusion.
Whats left now when all is washed away,
And the summer drought now claims all memory.
Yet I still remain, desperate to escape.

See my head smashed against the wall,
My head caved in upon the brick,
Mangled up with mortar.
Why am I still conscious,
Why is the pain only in my mind.

Where do I go to escape myself.