Every Death

Beautiful stranger
 You came along at the wrong time
 I'm just a shadow
 Of how you see me in your mind
 And you're a scavenger
 Sniffing out the scraps of what I left behind
 Much like the vultures
 Circling over both our heads
 Sooner or later
 They know we'll remember we've been dead
 This whole time
 I'm ruling the kingdom of the blind
 So leave me alone now
 I'm taking the medicine
 I can't be around anyone
 I need to be silent in my skin
 Dwell in the stillness
 Feel only the movement of my breath
 And how it affects the air
 Molecules around my body
 Their subtle circulation
 Could sufficiently captivate
 My attention for centuries
 What else could we need, really?
 I wanted to warn you
 Said I'm carrying some trauma as my chest
 Clenches into a fist
 Pulled back and ready to swing
 'Cause you kinda look like him
 You got the same way
 Of looking at me like you own me
 And I used to like that I guess
 But not anymore
 Now it makes me feel like I am drowning
 So don't touch me
 I've got more important things to do
 And I couldn't tell you
 How good it feels to realize
 That I never needed him
 And I'll never tell myself those lies
 About what I need again
 I don't need anything at all
 I already have it
 Heaven exists in every breath
 Within every moment
 Is every birth and every death
 That will ever happen
 It's already happened
 It'll happen again I guess