When all should be done and gone
He comes round again to see
He can't keep himself away
He touches her hand and it starts again
His work is an ugly mess
He prods and it cries in pain
He kicks and it starts to scream
He hurries away when she cannot see
When all should be done and gone
He comes round again to see
He can't keep himself away
He touches her hand and it starts again
Moving so slowly
Droplets of kindness
That poison and choke
When this thing should have died long ago
The entrails are soft and warm
This time it must be the end
One touch and it lives again
He keeps it alive to be part of its pain
And that's mercy
And that's compassion
And that's being good friends in a crisis
What's one corpse between friends?
He comes round again to see
He can't keep himself away
He touches her hand and it starts again
His work is an ugly mess
He prods and it cries in pain
He kicks and it starts to scream
He hurries away when she cannot see
When all should be done and gone
He comes round again to see
He can't keep himself away
He touches her hand and it starts again
Moving so slowly
Droplets of kindness
That poison and choke
When this thing should have died long ago
The entrails are soft and warm
This time it must be the end
One touch and it lives again
He keeps it alive to be part of its pain
And that's mercy
And that's compassion
And that's being good friends in a crisis
What's one corpse between friends?
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