No Virtue

This is no virtue
It’s more like a sin

Clinging onto hope like you did
with claw marks in my skin

Maybe this will gobble me up
like I always said it would

Now I don’t know what I deserve,
only what I had to earn
what I licked off knives
that cut up my tongue

What I need is fleeting
like the feelings that you had

stirred up in someone else’s mistakes
An ever-changing fad

maybe this will swallow me whole
like I always said it might

Now I take the pills
and turn my mind off
anything to make me
forget my life