Zombie Butterflies

 
You only tell me you love me
When I try to leave you
I feel chained to you
But gods you're beautiful
Enchanted and enthralled
I can only compare
How I feel to the stories
Of humans who have been  
Trapped by the unseelie
I can't leave when I love you
And when I tell you
That I have tried to kill it
This love that's inside me
That the butterflies
Aren't alive inside me
But skeleton and made of shards of
Broken glass and love undying
The pain in your eyes fill me with shame
And you confide that you've never
Tried to stop loving me
That loving me is like breathing
You are unearthly, magical
Your voice can play my emotions
As if I were an instrument of flesh and bone
I'm filled with need for you
Intoxicated by your touch
Oh... I wouldn't know if I'd survive
Without your laughter and sharp teeth
Without your skin against mine
So let the butterflies be undead
Let our love burn everything inside me
Let our love be a mosaic of pain
And though you only tell me
You love me when I try to leave
I know I could never truly walk away