Cassandra

On an island only in my mind

Nothing more on than what I need

Wind touches my soaking-wet hair

Chills crawl down my spine,

and take hold of my heart

I can see it in the corner of my eye

There’s fire on the horizon

I yell out Cassandra into the night

Praying to these pages, I call to her

If you saw the end coming, would you try to

stop it?

By then, she was already gone

Maybe I’ve got this twisted obsession with

fucking things up

The feeling of falling in love while the world’s burning down

is all I’ve ever needed to feel

When all that's left are the cinders of your life,

who still stands beside you?

where do you stand, Cassandra?

I listen to the birds like the Bible

I ask the robots how to feel okay

I cry myself to sleep, I’m too cool to care

spell out the signs of being too far gone

Cassandra, please, don’t leave me in the dark

I saw the end coming and I didn’t stop it

what if I knew you wanted me to?

A good/better person would have tried

The world ends in fire, mine ends in ice

Because when Troy’s burning down is the only time I feel alive