Shark Week (B-Side)

Piece myself together - such an intricate puzzle: Fragments of a fragile heart. You'll return from afar to a new son to pull apart. I'm drowning in your damage. Born this enigma left to carry the stigma.

I was the sound of a shutting door. I was the sound of the pain you can't ignore. Flaws in your design: A collage of faults that line your mind. I was the wound that would never heal. I was the void in your heart you couldn't feel. Loss personified: Forever your son but never again your victim.

I awake beside a tortured twin, my crimson reflection, trapped within. Fill my lungs with insufficiencies I'm the effigy of your iniquity. Born this enigma, left to carry the stigma. Baptized with boiling water, branded with a cancerous seal. Reenact the dread of your past. Paint despair on my shaking back.

But now I bloom: Your discarded scar flourishing despite the disregard. Extract the shame grafted to my name - remove the splinters of bone from our broken home. Metabolizing suffering growth will eclipse adversity. Stand between what was and is to come. Clinched-fist past meets my open palm.

I'm not the wounds you gave me. I'm the light that flows inside - enduring as the ocean, resilient as the tide. I won't drown inside your damage. I won't sink into your shame. I'll build a home for hope from the wreckage in your wake.

I was the sound of a shutting door. I was the sound of the pain you can't ignore. Flaws in your design: A collage of faults that line your mind. I was the wound that would never heal. I was the void in your heart you couldn't feel. Loss personified: Forever your son but never again your victim.