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Black

Abyssals

Holy Matrimony

With the dirt

Eaten by fungi

As detritivores rise

Smelling my decor

Upon the fescue floor

I dined, served with rye

And was consumed whole

Blackened by the call

Of vultures and their law

I suffocate under my skin

And seek rebirth

Banned

From seeing the sun

A cave develops

In my eyeholes

And lymph nodes

Ensnared, and wasting, away

Running, through red, in shadows

Hopeless, my claws, will follow

My skull, empty, and hollow

Paralyzed, and partly, I swallow

I’m lost, in breaches,

Upon, the corpses

You see, in me

I am Hades’ lost

The suffering

Lost on me

My selfishness

For all I see

Is entropy

I wish for a new life

But I see nothing but cords

The chords

Play my exit

For all

Lost

For all

Forever and ever

I’m gone

It takes me

Under the tar

Wincing

Before the bright light

Emitted by flame

Creatures stalk my grave

RISE

RISE

STAND

RISE