chrysalis from debut by Leonora Hackles

lying in bed and i'm making a chrysalis out of the absences people regard as ultimate failures on somebody's part and have the audacity to call me a pessimist
throwing it out there, consider this: i value the misses as much as the hits and i'm happy as god in the god delusion dancing with jesus inside the illusion of love
under the ivory i've built around me, in the pages of long dead philosophers, so far inside i've forgot how to find it there's probably something i have left to offer up
if you could bother to dig down inside of it, hold your eyes open like a clockwork orange, i think there is something the colour of courage
i count on my fingers your blinks as you're sizing it up
and i think to myself that you're already burning it up

• Alternative
• doomfolk
• northern gothic
• proto goth
• singer-songwriter
• Manchester