Birthmark

Bullet holes inside my body Death’s number on my arms The shattered state, the cooling fade of my lungs Ravened soul, years in the breaking Wearied as a beggar’s bones Too many mornings writhe in fate’s disguising song Oh I’ll run recklessly into the dark For a new start, a birthmark Sea of glass on which I’m walking Bends to break beneath the shame Why do we slave to build an able ship with doomed remains? Oh I am bleeding out from these scars Oh I’ll run recklessly into the dark For a new start, a birthmark