A Boy With Roses

Ivory Rivers of Silk Blood

No one speaks to me like they did                                                                                        

They think I\'m a quiet child, procrastinating in my insular mind                                      

Perverted like a stalker at night, fuelled by the inferno of my regrets                                                                  

I feel the cold air, the dark night sky brooding with every train that passes                                      

I tighten the tourniquet and scream to let everyone know                                                      

I\'m cruising for sweet asphodel, the smell of daffodils when it\'s mizzling                                          

My howling eyes repent but I\'m ready to sin again                                                          

Alive in the thunder of obsolete rays, I admire the pulchritude                                                

The beams from unforgiving crops tired and falling into the cries                                                  

Of Mountain time, rivers tugging at true love, growing up in a different world                                            

I light candles and leave them burning like whispering orphans                                              

It\'s palpable, this atmosphere and the decadence                                                      

You are someone\'s son, but do they remember you                                                          

When you\'re forgetting?