Promise to Bleed

Promise to Bleed

By John Sills

Born in the year 1983

Came to the world by decree

That beautiful heart was me

For all the world to see

Little did I know the cruel design

that would inflict my heart and mind

A boy born under the rose's sign

crushed under the jackboot of the defining time

Little by little the senses numb

a heart sundered and undone

a mind constantly on the run

constantly cowering from the sun

As the years go by

A heart stitched before the waking eye

from all the torment and the lies

Raped by the fiends in disguise

Now I look with piercing stare

Stripping the masks they wear

Seeing their souls naked and bare

to the horrors they hide there

Now I am as cold as ice

to their screams in the night

Struggling with my own vice

And its chains so tight

Torch a bridge and walk away

Leaving masses in the frey

No elegant words to say

Only memories left decayed

Wrap myself in shame

for taking part in their game

dishonor my name

Another fiend just the same.

Now its time to bring the rain

To accept the pain

kill the cancer in the brain

and the poison in the veins

Take back virtue from the shadow

walk through where nothing grows

Face the fiends in tattered clothes

bringing murder of the crows

What do hollow eyes see

when they stare at me

A boy of roses decree

a fiend of insanity

keep your shadows secretly

A promise I would ask of thee

before you bury me

just promise to bleed