Dear Reader - Skeleton Key

Dear Reader

To anyone it might concern

I found the bleeder

And cauterized it with a sterile burn

It stopped beating

The chapter’s coming to an end

But keep reading

There’s a question that I must amend

Is there nothing I can say

To make you come around my way

Dear reader

The coffin and the killing jar

A box of cedar

The size of a human heart

So dear reader

Then if there’s nothing that I’ve overlooked

Then I’ll leave her

Between the pages of this book

Is there nothing that I can do

You know I’m still in love with you

Is there nothing I can say

To make you come around my way

Is there nothing that I could do

You know I’m still in love with you

Dear reader

This is my final scrawl

The make believers

Will die unhappily after all