In Lieu of Flowers

Feel her swell inside my head

Spirit can I trust you yet?

Walking to the car

Ringing through my heart

Were the words I'd never say to you

The winter is between your teeth

And sleeps where you bite down on me

How fast the feeling grows

From a place I'm scared to go

Covered in a darkness all your own

Fake a smile and dry lips bleed

No way to hide my feelings

How fast our love has pulled

Itself to ritual

With no way to have the things it needs