Salvation's Pointed Knife

Lines dissolving
Fractured boundaries
Expectations supplanted by hate
Your words spill recklessly
Ever inflating
this ache
In me, sickening, I fail to fight this

Urge
Reserve-extinguished
Where spite and wrath converge
This hate
Now bears down on

Your bones
Like coarse stones
I'm scraping
I strip flesh
To atone
What you raped
For your throne
Now heed
My fist on your cheek
My fingers
That gouge deep
To deface your face
To expressions of meat

How do you plead?
How do you plead?
Plead for these
Moments of agony to cease
You took it from me
This life-now diseased
Your torments the last thing
That's left here for me

I lost myself in trying
To be everything I wasn't
For you-crawling like a maggot
Heeding every word you spat
A stranger in my skin
Oh, what did me in?
But I'm awakening to your vile world I'm living in

Oh, that which has been sown
With time grows
And he who plants for sin
Shall bear a price of bones

Let me now with
These last shreds of self so smite
The hand that so firmly constricted my life
This snake I must bite
This snake I must bite
Salvation's at hand at the point of a knife

Point of a knife
Point of a knife
Salvation's at hand at the point of knife
Point of a knife
Point of a knife
Salvation's at hand at a point of a knife