it's in your bones
grows like mold, planting roots
long fingers reaching
curling talons around your joints, your lungs
and squeezing
it's in your heart
waves crashing, bark cracking
leaking in through the smallest space
flooding in, making itself comfortable
and drowning
it's in your skin
tracing maps, fracturing porcelain
nails in a coffin
taking control, locking up
and devouring
grows like mold, planting roots
long fingers reaching
curling talons around your joints, your lungs
and squeezing
it's in your heart
waves crashing, bark cracking
leaking in through the smallest space
flooding in, making itself comfortable
and drowning
it's in your skin
tracing maps, fracturing porcelain
nails in a coffin
taking control, locking up
and devouring