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With every step I take

I test the ground before

Since I know

That each day

Uncovers ways to suffocate myself

I just might breathe my last

Before I’ve sunken down

My uncertain sight

Could mask the ground before

Hence, I know

That each night

Presents a chance to paralyze myself

When poison clouds the past

Before I’ve sunken down

I know I’m called

To sink below

By siren song, singing:

“Let your struggle go

And fill your lungs

Up to the brim

Join in refrains

Of our viscous hymn”

As long as I’m alive

The darker days will always multiply

Ad nauseam, until I’ve sunken down

And down

Soon I’ll be enveloped by the ground

Upon my presence here:

Alight a quicksand shroud

When I’m sunken down