Strangers, And our secrets they carry You know I don't Mean it in a bad way I've got an intimate relationship With cognitive dissonance And you've got a mouth like A sniper The maggots in the folds of my brain Crawling up the back of my throat A cocktail of paranoia, disdain I love the way you smile as I choke As I choke As I Who am I by myself, But another costume in the back of my closet? Who am I by myself? Do I exist at all? I think you taste life the same way that I did I think you bleed the same way that I bled Nightmares tucked into the bedside nightstand I miss averting your gaze And tracing your hands The maggots in the folds of my brain Crawling up the back of my throat A cocktail of paranoia, disdain I love the way you smile as I choke As I choke As I My inner monologue Will forever be An intersection Of everyone who has abused me Circle the drain On the disposal of everything In lust of, an ode to, My god given right To ruin everything first