Apparitions

My desperate soul casts a lonely shadow of my guilt

Pleading whispers echo through what remains of our forsaken home

Bloodstained hands sharpening a rusty knife

Human transmutation, my life for your life

Praying for answers, buried under the weight of all my grief

Begging to hear your comforting voice again

This house has burned to ash, the flames engulf me inside

I haven't felt like myself since the day that you died

Sacrificing my flesh into the abyss

Hope dies in vain, no time to reminisce

In the attic, circles drawn in salt and shame

I just need to see your face again

Promises made in desperate agony

To resurrect the ones we've lost

Regardless of the ultimate cost

Apparitions of my dead family

Haunt me when I close my eyes

Apparitions devoid of all facial features

Haunt me when I sleep at night