In my world, time stands still frozen like flies trapped in amber One perfect preserved, just ere the kill Gruesome atrocities in horror's chamber
Poetry without motion, stranded midstream Waxen in this dark drama of the macabre Mouths agape with terror but to scream No rattle heard, nor parting sors
I am of life through my morbid art For each mannequin was alive from the start So if the eyes seem to follow your as you gawk Know that in the eyes of the dead, in their you walk
molded in wax as their lives buried away More preening puppets to perform in the scenes that I cast in the moment of dying preserved How they screamed as they met with their fates well
Recreating the horror of the moment of My models serve purpose quite well Embalm their bodies in wax, capture their breath Drain the fluids to stave off the
Like dolls that to their own funeral dirge They play out death scenes interminably As prized their exhibits in my reserve unfold their secrets only to me
Life eternal in wax was death's decree Suffering for my art, surrendered to me So when their lock with your gaze unflinchingly at death or turn away fast
Skin blistered and softened as it was coated and away Another preserved puppet to prance on the strings that I The fear ensnared in their captive I've trapped and memorialized in wax well-woven and wrapped
So sit still in your place at the end of the By my design, hand find you just out of reach Another player in deathly silent world that I have made Devoid of sound, fury or motion, sense, movement or
Awaiting a terminus never will come a marionette bound by my strings Trussed in this tomb of wax, your here is not done For time does not quite end all
This is my life's work, this still, place A monument to the fear frozen in a cold, face Take care not to into their eyes, whatever you do you look deep into death, it sees back into you too
Flesh and scalded, as this molten bath washed life away Wax covered my still-screaming piece for my prizing, recast in my mold Features harden and set as the wax grows and cold