Azure Rain

A haunted stain cannot wash away

Eyes burned into the sky
Devoid of lids, an iron vice derides the blind
Salt escaping broken bones as you hover over in disguise

Slowly tearing through the mouth of the pure limb over limb
Though the seed's broken through, time has not stilled
A ghost in the mirror, you shall remain

Grind ineffable dreams through the mind
Lay down in peace as the sun subsides
An infant and veterans divide
Their eyes and lives are clouded by time

No matter how far nor how high
The stain on the glass will remain
No matter your growth or decline
Warmly observed through azure rain

Stripped trees carve the air leaving breaks for breath
I know glasslike surface, crystalline
An outlined condition doomed to expire
Raindrops cascading beckoning self recognition's eye

Self recognition cast matter to grey

I ask of you: what is growth worth?
By league or by inch, by stride or by step

The over remains painted
Ever distant constant, I've balanced my back

"Has your balance been try
To live with the motion is to die?"

Death in all forms is blackness: nothing
Times grains slips through cracks fast
Without any judgement
Repairing the glass left unphased

A haunted stain cannot wash away
Self recognition cast matter to grey

I've seen the light
Felt nails tear in
To burn through the blight
I've torn off my skin