persephone

As I become myself
You won't recognize me
Leaving your shallow hell
I stitched up the shame with my own silver lining
Oh, how the shattered mirrors
Violently defining
The broken glass carved my skin
I gave in to silence your own soul from crying

I was all yours for the taking
But you kissed my bruises just to honor their aching
I was all yours for the taking
Crowned in ash and dressed in bone
My body burns at your fingertips
Carve your name into my subconscious
I was all yours for the taking
But no longer yours for breaking

You claimed an abduction but I stepped through the gate
I swallowed the seeds as I choked on my fate
A coronation though obsidian chains
My flesh decays
I built my throne where darkness wept
Learned to bloom where Sun neglects
You praise my light, yet fear my depth
Was my heart your conquest?

I was all yours for the taking
But you kissed my bruises just to honor their aching
I was all yours for the taking
Crowned in ash and dressed in bone
My body burns at your fingertips
Carve your name into my subconscious
I was all yours for the taking
But no longer yours for breaking

Born from my demise
Reclaim what was mine, sanctified!

I was all yours for the taking
But you kissed my bruises just to honor their aching
I was all yours for the taking
Crowned in ash and dressed in bone
My body burns at your fingertips
Carve your name into my subconscious
I was all yours for the taking
But no longer yours for breaking

Slip off my satin flesh, you made me wear in vein
You wanted me weak, secretly worshipped my pain
Take back the dress you stitched from unconscious shame
My eternal homecoming