Everyday I die a little
My will and heart still growing brittle
Break me, smash me, darling, please
I'm decaying on my knees

Begging, make the sun be gone
Make these hours not as long
Lift my chin up from my chest
And listen as I do confess

It was the night of the thirteenth
My soul was tossed far out to sea
And though I searched till skies were black
I could never get it back

They all laughed at what they saw
A broken face that lost it all
My eyes turned grey like flame-licked coal
The world would not give back what it stole

The man I love, I haven't seen
Perhaps he was pulled away from me
Along with all I cannot touch
To leave me here with skin of dust

I send out all my dying pieces
In hopes the darkness will release him
But alas, I am not what it wants
The more time goes by, the more I rot

Every hour I die a little
Thinking of days that I was belittled
Millions of strikes from his backhand
At last I know just where I stand

Letters to words to pages I bleed
About shackles too tight, and air I can't breathe
The screams in my eyes that nobody hears
Tied up like an animal that trembles in tears

The prison for me, so finely crafted
Curled up in a cage that is hung from the rafters
Scarlet rain drips from up high
My cold lifeless limbs dangle till my veins run dry

A note flutters down, it was written to him
The one that for miles, through souls, I would swim
The beating of wings and talons on chains
The snapping of metal, the end of my pain

The crash of the cage as it hits the floor
The bars, all now twisted, but there's no longer a door
I crawl out slowly to see what had saved me
But only the dark and the cold would pervade me

Every second I die a little
Just trying to undo my riddles
To break free of where I was before
I quoth the raven, Nevermore...

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