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Focused breathing

Down and down and down

Attend to my words

Down and down

Came here screaming

Down and down

Lost in my mind’s maze

Down and down

Spark your own demise

Unsure abide

Secrets veiled in sighs

Time-abraded mind

Sober visions

Down and down and down

Doubts are denied

Down and down

Cease the screaming

Down and down

Settle your soul

Down and down

Spark your own demise

Unsure abide

Secrets veiled in sighs

Time-abraded mind

Time ain’t by our side

Not you nor I

Keep masquerading

Shattering my pride

For all the years of swallowed tears

All it brought was more pain

Emptiness fills the hollow soul

Desperate whispers taking their toll

Yearning for light amidst the gloom

Trapped in darkness, a silent tomb

Float, free your mind

Lost in time, fate unkind

Grow, shadows bind

Echoes of the past haunt the mind

Five swans fly over the scene

Chasing skies much more serene

Four limbs that I can claim as my own

These things can barely take me home

Three starlings sing to guide my way

Keep the smell of sweat and shame at bay

Tipped off how this befell me

Was the taste of a discarded remedy