A handful of terror

instilled in your eyes

while your tongue slips out serpentine

and utters something about love.

Baby, did you forget...

Hallucinating, dreaming,

feeling, thinking

in a world baring platinum blonde skies.

Needle's point rolling underhand

I hear the clank of your teeth

as you clamp down

on transparent plastic.

Baby, baby...

your stars look down and scream at you

crying out for some sort

of fragmented salvation.

Weep into your wine

your lips taste like salt and sin

hands all over

causing bruises under your skin.

Did you forget...

midnight sacrifice

slaughtered at the altar of your dreams

did you forget?

You can hear the screams

in your ear

though words remain still

pilgrim's touch to a God who sneers down upon you.

Baby...

you cannot sit still

...did you...

see your skin crawling with worms

...forget...

the horror inside--did you forget

...to take your meds?