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Rising from the torpor of stale water

Reminiscent fragments of memories

Pierce my consciousness as shards of glass

Slowly forced through living meat

Reflecting images taught forever erased

How wrong was I now I discover

Feeble inside tenuous restrains of taught

Laid by confessions amid deep introspection

Solitary monologues of a madman's temptation

Scourging dreams of stealing chastened blood

From the vestibule of innocence

To satiate the thirsty vaults of my sick mind

Once more I watch these hands these fingers

A tight noose wound round a shriveling throat

Striped of life extinguished like a flame

Violated Venus dressed in liquid

Enveloped in death silhouetted in the darkling shimmer

Staring open mouthed back at me

In serene surreal ambiguity

Black eyes mirroring the haze on my blank face

Vacant within sinking the tips of my fingers into her

Eyes losing luster like worthless stones adorning

The disembodied remains beneath the surface tension

Specter of a denied past still looming in my head

But no more at rest now residing within my hands

At last released free afloat and she slowly sinks

Abandoning me as fluids invade her chest

Guilt does not impair primordial needs

This deed only inflames my hunger

Yearning more throats to smother