All the Nerve Endings

Scabs of moonlight
Borrow me
For a false identity

No reflection
Of their own
Only crusting afterglow

Light will follow me
Into obscurity
All the nerve endings
Justify the means
Die before you bleed

In the mirror
Phantom limbs
And a learned paralysis

Like a vampire
On your throat
After hunger's antidote

The skin and pain it's in
Cease to be