Ribbons

She tore me to ribbons

Guess that's all I am

Heaven sows the seeds of light

I just turned and ran

Halo, light tripping

I'm absolved of a thousand expectations

It's a shame though, to be slipping

See those embers down below

In all these worlds

I would never succumb

To the light flickering

Tempting the flame, the flame

I am made of splinters

Scattered from the shards

Heaven tricks my path with light

For every fallen star

Oh Daemon, guide me slowly

I'm ashamed of a lifetime of weakness

Am I the white crow?

Secrets lost in a mouth of vertigo

A fate that's winding

These ribbons become strings

To the place, it's quickening

It shakes its mighty wings

Like connoisseurs they'll pick me

Out of the shallow bowl

Promising divisions

To tear my gentle soul

I am cut from mother

Head up on the spike

Far from shepherd's pastures

Into the open wide

A jawline, blood dripping from the strike

Still alive but barely breathing

In a while I'll tend again and amend for my shadow

My path is fortune

My price sharp and cold

My light is flickering