Tattoo

With my skin like canvas,
Your smile the blade to carve your name
In teardrops on my face,
Softly into absence I drift
But the scars never fade ;

The memories like phantoms,
Your eyes a grave laid open in wait,
Like the cold blue of my veins,
Slowly into madness I resist,
But the path has been laid ;

I see you everywhere
In the shadows of my mind,
In the dark circles of your embrace
These haunted shadows stain my face
In every jagged line ;

I watch the bitter hands of damage and regret
Painting everything,
The sunlight in darkest black,
The silent nights in deepest sad
And somber colored dreams,
A secret no one could keep,
The needle writes the words so deep,
It tattooed all I'll ever see ;

Breathe deep to rest awhile,
I'm surrounded by sweet tasting lies,
It was everything I ever needed,
Drugged by the sound of happily ever after
It was the only music I could hear,
Now the song you twisted
Still spins around my head,
Keep resisting,
I'm drifting,
How long will this pale sunset violate my sky ;

I feel those bitter hands slash with broken glass
The picture of my dreams,
With every promise said,
The cuts are painted red
In tattooed memories,
With hunger you have fed
Upon my world so raped and bled,

The pain cutting scars in me,
The brutal angry marks you leave,
Tattooed all I'll ever see,
All I'll ever be,
In every memory ;

I toss and turn within a desolate heart
Left twisting in the breeze,
Like the martyr burns to a welcomed spark
To rise gently in freedom's relief,
And I've scrubbed my skin down to the virgin raw
To forget everything you did,
No manner of time can wash the memories off,
I still see every scar
I thought tomorrow would forgive ;

Now in these bitter hands
I rest the weary plans
Of what might have been,
The sunlight fades to black,
Another silent night painted sad
With somber colored dreams,
A secret I could not keep,
The needle wrote the words too deep,
It tattooed all I'll ever see
And all I'll ever be

In every haunting memory :