A comforting Lie

I know death

I know it well

The way that it tastes

The way that it smells

I’ve worked my way

Across its lands

Through treacherous landscapes

With my life at hand

I know death

I know all it’s madness

The fear that it promises

Inside the void of its blackness

The things that it tells you

When you’re down on your knees

How it whispers it’s promises

Like the wind and the trees

I know death

Because I’ve lead it inside

Through the depths of my heart

Leaving nowhere to hide

I’ve watched it spill over

Till it turned the waters dark

Within my bones and my blood

Biting down till it left its mark

I know death

The sweet seduction of its deceit

The comforting lies that it will tell you

A bitter taste that once was sweet

In all the ways it’ll lure you

It has lured me without repent

Too many times for me to conceal

The things I’ll never quite forget