Pastel pinks and baby blues
Thorns drag over skin
Red roses form inside your veins
And turn your blood so thin
Floating flecks of dirt and blood
Bleed the water red
Remember how you bled and bled
With every word she said?
Drowning in the bathtub
Choking on soap
Trying to get the taste of blood
Out of my throat
Gray skies and violent eyes
I'm swimming with the wrasse
Plunged beneath cold, stagnant water
Peeking through the glass
Scrub under your fingernails
Scrub away blunt lies
Scrub harder, underwater now
Scrub until the pain dies
Drowning in the bathtub
Choking on soap
Trying to get the taste of blood
Out of my throat
(Sink under the soft mud, under the pink suds painted with your blood
I'll never leave the tub again)