Bare feet on the asphalt

Cold water in my shoes

I spin through the street like a warning

Trying to wash out you

I laugh till it cracks into coughing

Till my lungs taste iron and salt

Every puddle keeps reflecting

Every version of our fault

So I run away

I dance in the rain till you disappear

Till I never see you again

I bite

I break

Scarlet on my hands

On my teeth

In the drain

Scarlet rain

Scarlet rain

Knuckles on the mirror

Shards in my skin like glass

Your name on the fog of the window

I smear it till it’s just scratch

Red rivers in the bathroom light

Dripping quiet down my arm

You taught me how to call it loving

I only learned how to harm

Every breath feels borrowed

Every step

A stain

I keep chasing every storm I make

Just to drown your name

So I run away

I dance in the rain till you disappear

Till I never see you again

I bite

I break

Scarlet on my hands

On my teeth

In the drain

Scarlet rain

Scarlet rain

I don’t want your ghost in my marrow

I don’t want your voice in my veins

Let the sky open up like an answer

Wash you out of my name

(Scarlet rain)

So I run away

I dance in the rain till you disappear

Till I never see you again

I bite

I break

Scarlet on my hands

On my teeth

In the drain

Scarlet rain

Scarlet rain