The air is weighing on me thickly like a secret; like a sin and i am flat.
Flat as the cold and seamless floor
flat as the sound of nevermore
flat as the earth that drops to pre-Columbus mists outside my door.
I am a tomb
I am a sigh
I am a board to nail up anything that justifies destruction.
We are raised up in the dawn
with shadow death long at our side
and as we walk into the light
it slips up on us from behind
until its close enough to bite
until it circumscribes your life
and drags s your dusky heels down with it into cold eternal night.
i used to dream
and thats the part that kept me fearful of the sleep
i used to shake
when in the drowning of a blackness all too deep
so every night i shake a pill out -- forcing silence onto sound
but pretty soon i think ill have to wash the whole damn bottle down.
and in the playground there are children
with their shadows long and grey
singing songs
throwing stones
digging holes in sandy play
but to me they're digging graves
oh, to me they're digging graves.
and there are 13 letters
telling me you never were
there are 13 sadnessess
that weep around my door
i am looking through the bars
i am looking through the sky
and i'm feeling how it felt to watch you die.
Flat as the cold and seamless floor
flat as the sound of nevermore
flat as the earth that drops to pre-Columbus mists outside my door.
I am a tomb
I am a sigh
I am a board to nail up anything that justifies destruction.
We are raised up in the dawn
with shadow death long at our side
and as we walk into the light
it slips up on us from behind
until its close enough to bite
until it circumscribes your life
and drags s your dusky heels down with it into cold eternal night.
i used to dream
and thats the part that kept me fearful of the sleep
i used to shake
when in the drowning of a blackness all too deep
so every night i shake a pill out -- forcing silence onto sound
but pretty soon i think ill have to wash the whole damn bottle down.
and in the playground there are children
with their shadows long and grey
singing songs
throwing stones
digging holes in sandy play
but to me they're digging graves
oh, to me they're digging graves.
and there are 13 letters
telling me you never were
there are 13 sadnessess
that weep around my door
i am looking through the bars
i am looking through the sky
and i'm feeling how it felt to watch you die.
). I tried to find a bit to quote but after reading it a few times I realised Id end up quoting the whole thing. This is just amazing 
Thanks so much for letting us read it.