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Contorting the absolute

A corpse surrounds a beating heart

Diffused into apathy

Eyes preach to a shadowed mind

Savoured as lost

Fractal shards of ecstasy

Pulse echoes into empty thoughts

Values fade to atrophy

Control within quickened words

Callous error forces seclusion

Find fault in my structure

And strengthen my resolve

Tired hopes

The remains of sensation

Only the flesh will fall away

The derelict self

The confines set

The hardened from

Delay the soul

Beyond its judgement

Absent existence strays from order

Delivered from the corruption of sentiment

The pitiless conscience driven to convert

A system takes hold

Inveterate sense consumes the fading essence

Poured into servitude

A lifetime suffered in the midst of decay

A system takes hold

Hollowed

Feed to weaken

Centred abhorrence

Breeding outwards

I, the bleeding device

In statis

In statis

Burn deeper inside

Hunger

Futile as birth

Soul as bleak as failure

At the cost of desertion

The human affliction

Discarded with ease

Exaltation at the deficiency

Accept the defect

Insular

Not of man or god

Close the last moral

And leave me to the end