ivy ropes
withering ivy crawls,
Suffocating the cracks where once it grew
Hiding in the broken walls,
Dripping down, blooming like hearts anew.
But what you don’t know,
Is that the castle you see,
Was forged from blood long ago,
and all the stones they threw at me.
So you look down on the poison,
That brew from my jade hearts,
And frown at the meadows they moisten,
Only to strip me of my parts.
The world, my god, how they cry,
About the girl locked in the vines
But through alligator tears, they lie
And leave me in a hell of my own design.
But it’s no wonder my eyes went dull,
And everything I touch, I break,
so I used the ivy from cracks in my skull,
And you used the venom of a snake.
My skeleton scrapes the stone,
Waiting for the sun to hit my eyes,
I solemnly wait and take my throne,
You were a thief in a prince’s disguise.
So you used the knife in glee,
Merely a killer disguised as a gift
But darling, the dreamer in me,
She’s here, I swear she lived