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I kiss the tourniquet

Gently maiming my body

Piece by piece

Embracing a lie

By sacrificial bleeding

To endure the night

Beyond the cold forever

I bury my dreams of you

Close within yet still so far away

Is this the great affection

The golden path of old

That leads us all in dismay?

Desert shores of human merit

Come quench my thirst

Oceans left to conquer

Depths to be fought

Brick by brick

We carry the load

Raising our beacon

To eclipse the sun

By the black holes in your eyes

Beyond all substitutes

Below all walls of pride

Beneath the outmost contempt

I bury my heart for you