Flinch
One breath closer I am flinching
Your eyes kaleidoscope in mine
I'm compelled to tremble when you listen
To the whispers in my spine
Hear silence's disintegration
All the scenes are losing texture
Fading to grey before the wake
Of doubt's silken shroud.
Take your time and I will mirror
A paradox between us crackles
Hope spawned from a voyage
Of dreams bursting to shrapnel
Call me careful but I have my vices
Time's a fickle mistress of mine
If I show you something different
Will you recoil at the sight?
I see you shake in trepidation
Bleeding knuckles in the fight.
Can I strangle the demon
Keeping your gaze off the sky?
Now our stars are bursting
Trees are arching onyx veins
Growing, stretching, grasping light.
Then my iris' fractured surface
Pales bare in its reflection
When the imp comes back alive
One breath closer I am flinching
Your eyes kaleidoscope in mine
If I show you something different
Will you recoil at the sight?
Now unravel so this dream quickens
Just resist the countless flinches
Of grasping every barbed
Second of time tearing by