mascarade
You were a mask like anyone else, a mouth made of sugar, a mirror of nails. A magnet of energy, a blue little star, pulling my shadow from very far. A vampire of salt, with ocean-black eyes, drinking the moon from the wound in the sky. And I wanted miracles, I wanted the spell, I wanted to fall through your beautiful hell. I wanted to believe, I wanted to glow, I wanted the night to swallow me slow. Hypnotized again, hypnotized again, counting dead flowers inside of my brain. Hypnotized again, hypnotized again, I built the cage and called it your name. You were a signal with no one inside, a silver disaster learning to smile. Your hands were two candles that never gave light, your voice was a chapel that opened at night. And I fell in the trap of my own little mind, searching for heaven in something unkind. Because I wanted to love you, to love you for real, but love was a mirror forgetting to feel. I wanted to believe, I wanted to glow, I wanted the night to swallow me slow. Hypnotize...