Ghost with Needle Teeth

Through sewer grates and shattered stone

You find me bleeding out alone

Your throat still grates death's broken hymn

As frostbite grips my trembling skin

I swore I buried you that night

Nailed the coffin, locked it tight

But love like yours leaves open wounds

And now you’re crawling through

Ghost with needle teeth

Gnawing through my veins

Scratching at my ribs

Still whispering my name

You kissed me first, you broke me last

Left my lungs full of shattered glass

Now every night you dig me up

Just to drain my blood from hollowed bones

I swore I buried you that night

Nailed the coffin, locked it tight

But love like yours leaves open wounds

And now you’re crawling through

Ghost with needle teeth

Tearing through my skin

Ripping out my breath

So I can’t love again

Through rusted wires and broken locks

You slip between the boards and gnaw

No priest can banish what remains

No fire burns away your name

You crawl inside, behind my ribs

Bite down hard till marrow splits

Each heartbeat writes you into me

A curse I’ll never set free

Ghost with needle teeth

Tearing through my skin

I buried you

But you still breathe within