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Stand back

precious one!

Perhaps you cannot see,

but covered I lie

in fleshless wounds

Painfully reopened

with each touch.

Full of an ooze

toxic and caustic

to porcelain skin.

Though you've never

heard my cries in the night

be thankful!

For the constant ring

from the words I sing

deafens and collapses

all meanings and senses

Tell me about

what you want to forget

That I may become.

Constant reminder.

Lay down before me

all fears and regrets

dragged out down the line.

Hesitation cramps these hands

cracks my voice

and at times it seems

pleasure,

relaxation,

elation, eludes every moment,

Dim lights in the fog of past.

Since you seem intent to share

my unbearable sufferings,

I'd only be so happy to oblige.

For I too was born under a bad sign.

Butterfly knives in my belly.

Uncertainty.

Anxiety.

closest friends.

Let's learn to live as one,

to awaken with the new dawn.

Never to stand alone,

but by choice or conviction.

Together, let's awaken calamity's dawn.

Our lifetime

seals the fate of all lifelines.

Less than two centuries

self fullfillment of prophecy.

Still we're ready

to turn and face

ancient debts,

tidal shadows,

rising screams.

For then we'll know

from beginning to end

what happened

Buried together,

beneath ancient debts,

finally paid

though repossessed.