Ash drifts in the corners of the room
Walls sweat with memory
No one speaks, but something listens
Time folds in on itself
The air is thick with absence

Pressure builds behind the teeth
Everything is waiting to collapse

Tear the roots from veins of rust
What was sacred now decays
Crush the bones, betray the trust
Nothing pure remains these days

I watch myself from the outside
Something hollow wears my skin
Every breath tastes like static
I am both the flame and the ash
Drifting, waiting for the end to mean something

Tear the roots from veins of rust
What was sacred now decays
Crush the bones, betray the trust
Nothing pure remains these days

Drown me slow
Inside the undertow
Nailed to a silence to loud 
to survive

Tear the roots from veins of rust
Crush the bones, betray the trust
What was sacred now decays
Nothing pure remains these days

I am the fire—
You try to outrun

Keith "Tex" Whitford

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