Black ichor drips on catalog cards
Silver sings where monster guards
Oil rag moves in steady sweep
Promises the hunt to keep
Fluorescent hums a tired tune
Dust settles past the afternoon
Coffee bitter salt in palm
Quiet keeps the violence calm
Silver salt on library steel
Wounds that monsters cannot heal
Pages turn but blades stay true
Clean the edge and start anew
Silver salt on library steel
Dewey decimals watch the work
No hungry eyes or village smirk
Just paper breath and binding glue
Honest labor quiet too
Fluorescent hums a tired tune
Dust settles past the afternoon
Coffee bitter salt in palm
Quiet keeps the violence calm
Silver salt on library steel
Wounds that monsters cannot heal
Pages turn but blades stay true
Clean the edge and start anew
Silver salt on library steel
Grimoire spines crack open wide
Knowledge sleeps on every side
But steel remembers what it cut
Blood remembers blade knows but
Order up the kitchen calls
Monsters bleed in dining halls
But here the only menu's peace
Wipe the steel and find release
Silver salt on library steel
Wounds that monsters cannot heal
Pages turn but blades stay true
Clean the edge and start anew
Silver salt on library steel
Thermos empty rag turned gray
Dawn creeps in to end the day
Silver bright on wooden shelf
Monster hunter monster self
Silver salt on library steel
Wounds that monsters cannot heal
Pages turn but blades stay true
Clean the edge and start anew
Silver salt on library steel
Silver salt on library steel
Blade rests quiet coffee gone
Morning shifts the night along