Corrosive Wash

Cancel the gathering
I’m burning
Take me to the water
Take me to my cleansing

Bruised at the water’s edge
You got to remove skin if you want to live
Blind from its acrid waves
I’m no more alive in this human state

Don’t you give up tonight
Don’t you give up and die

Along this hour (darkness is the light)
My body skinny (there is no tonight)
Wasting further (darkness is the light)
Until it withers and bleeds

In the dirt where my filth wears my past proudly
And now I’m gone and I won’t be mistaken wrongly

Wash till gone
Taste the norm
Wash the blood
Black with rust

I’m burning
Take me to the water

The blackest rung continues with every next grasp
Burning through until the damage is deaf

I’m inside the trouble now
I’m inside the darkest cloud
I’m inside this trouble now

I’m now going
I’m now fleeing daily