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Mother

from Water & Air by Shadow

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Is it not the duty of a mother to devour her child to protect it from another? I couldn't breathe so she'd breathe for me, couldn't be, so she became me. There's not room enough for both of us to come undone.

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I was born from the ashes of a fearful fire. 'Cause her love is like the yearning of a cigarette burning. We're surviving in the in-between, where no one's cruel, but no one's clean. We protect our comfort with a smokescreen.

She reaches for me in a haze of dreams, a shared curse to unearth these identities she's fed to me. Fears engineered to keep me near are fading fast, veneers crumble at long-last.

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Who fans the flames of this phantom pain? Who can stop the gross decay of this covenant that's been long betrayed? An ache I can not shake, the pain is none if not the same. While this protection breeds infection we're both left to lick our wounds in peace. Or in pieces

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from Water & Air, released July 7, 2021

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