Your fingers rip into my flesh,
Tearing my heart out
In trembling shreds of agony,
While your soul ignites my corpse
In atrocious flames of torment,
Enveloping my body,
Charred and blackened to the core,
With the belief of crippled glorifications.

This marred elation
Lethargically rots away
But your face is still opulent
As you fade into oblivion
Until all you are to me
Is a memory that never cared.

I wander aimlessly
Through dreary streets of apparition
And I'm frightened to look in the mirror
When all I understand is what I loathe,
What you were too ashamed to regard.

Your disquietude is the only thing I can feel
Resting upon my life,
Weighing it down with empty words.
I don't aspire to remember what you said
But I don't want to forget who you were.

Gehenna 1997