As bliss is torn from hazed eye -   demonic laughter resounds -   in cruel comfort -   the candle breathes its last -   no shades of sorrow -   no parting graces -   a grim enclosure of -   antagonizing memory -   no one must crawl behind these eyes again -   no one must crawl inside to snake this spine -   no one must crawl behind these eyes again -   no one must breathe the serpent sweet caress -   the ruination of the innocent -   the heartless lure of vacant faces -   and still I forge the chain that binds me -   as sure as winter - winter -   the scalpel incises the vibrant skin -   flesh parts -   enraptured as the purge begins -   and for a second the blindness is lifted -   as sure as nightfall -   nightfall -   no shades of sorrow -   no parting graces