Afraid

Fear is me and fear is we  
Stopped up desire inside of me  
Open up and let me be  
The clotting of your blood  
 
Blood is blood but fear is thicker  
Bleached the virus to kill the sicker  
Steal the fear of its liquor  
Abate your bleeding within this flood  
 
Stand up, stand down  
Surrender, let me kiss that frown  
Hold your tongue, speak not that noun  
Be caught smoldering as that word fear  
 
Bathed in flames and burned by water  
Invite your knuckles to this slaughter  
Hell is jealous of this martyr  
Silence your pitiful cries of fear.