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Try to feel the velvet lash

Creeping down your back like a furtive serpent

Was it just a loving hand's caress

Or have you been tricked to bow to a shaded stranger

Do you feel the poison

That is flooding your veins

You notice the numbness

Creeping its way into your heart

Rid the false embrace

Whispering your troubled mind to sleep

Or is it yet too late

To trade all warm words for a free decision

Did you feel the poison

That has flooded your veins

You noticed no numbness

That crept its way into your heart