Victim of Pygmalion

Written October 2022

Notes: Based on the narrative found in the album "Burn Pygmalion! A Better Guide to Romance" by The Scary Jokes. It's one of my personal favorite albums despite not being within my typical genre preferences

He carves her willfully
And so she is hurt
And she crawls out with her skin on fire

When she finds her way
Into the arms of another
She combusts
And she loses her strength
To do much at all

"Please hold me,"
She warns,
The flowers of her lover being torn apart by flame,
'She's a star, you know'
Her thoughts offer
'Sylvia's a star'

She knows the bugs
She knows the chisel
She feels them crawling in her cracks

"I'm lying! I'm lying!"
She calls to the sun
And her star answers her,
She won't leave,
She loves you.