The Gates at the End - Emily Jane White

I walked through the gates at the end

You weren’t far, far from me then

I would wait for you

In blood, holy and true

Cynical until it breaks, the words decay

The voice it cuts, the voice betrays

You can trace the lines broken hearts make

Run your fingers through the cracks of eternal ache

I walk through the gates at the end

They’d been marked by the pens of forgotten women

Pennyroyal we burn

For every forgotten word

And I cannot brace for the end

A long road

And I cannot brace for the end, the end