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Crooked are the lips which sell these dying promises

Flanked by adoration for the muse

The lies flew by like viral gales that shattered glass

And punctured hearts

And there stood truth

Soliloquizing by the fire

When I say me, I mean we

Depends on you

When I say she, I mean God

See us through

When I say love, I mean fear

Keep us strong

When I say sin, I mean blood

Keep us warm

From the wrong side of the aperture

The pendulum counter swings

With an invalid smile

And the rash of tarnished blushes

Fractured by the circumstance

The unrelenting haunt

Ten thousand words that eat away

The shapeless forms of yesterday

Soft sigh

Alabaster butterfly

Swarming like a moth around a candlelight

Lipstick

Luminescent summer night

Breath the fumes, the ones that stole my lungs from life

Steal away those broken hours of mine

Poison was the name they used when

Introducing calloused dreams

Sweet harlequin, I do implore

Like salt into an open sore

I surrendered to this dosage fine

And welcome toxic sleep

Satin canopies strewn about the floor

Echoing everything that never was

In a siren's noxious song

The antidote lay slain