Lips of Mercury

Never pausing to feel the truth
Bleeding from the outside in.
Watching wary beyond the self
Leaving scars to form within.

Never knowing up from down
When both look just the same.
Fragile hearts in limbo stay
'Til someone stakes a claim.

Clever banter of the heart
Hides a silver, sugared lie,
It falls from lips of mercury.
Making love sound like goodbye.

Twisting-hearted accusation
Wreaking havoc on the sane.
What was shattered turning whole
Needing shelter through the pain.

Secrets flood Insanity's home
Like wisps of whispered hopes in dream.
Aphrodite blinds the bound,
Now tarnished by this silent scream.

Truth is hid and so revealed,
And Strength is taught to cry.
Open hearts are ugly things
When Honesty is the lie.

Love and Torture share one moment
This then, is the mortal sin.
To love a man and leave him then,
Bleeding from the outside in.