Scene Of The Crime

You told me
to close my eyes
but now I know
a criminal is only as good
as the diamonds they hide,
So looking back on the scene of the crime,
I know
what you were after,
But what you don't know
is you've been
chasing a monster,
And once you catch her
you better let her go,
These claws cut
flawlessly and
these teeth
don't leave blood
for you to bleed,
Too little, too late,
When you cage
what can't be tamed,
We love
to destroy & create,
But under the skin
of a monster
and the fire & the flames,
What do we say
once we realize
monster,
criminal, thief, or beast,
what's a once upon a time without an ever after,
And once that
everything's
been said,
We're alive
but we're all already
in the land of the dead.