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I've spent these years a vagabond

Clawing at the gate

Barren soil tilled too fine

Chlorine surrogate

Wisdom comes deciduous

Bound to a conscious I hate

I've ululated to the skies

And damned their mussitations

Undulations underline

A gap in the equation

Psilosis came of derelict

Lacking reciprocation

Well alright

The maelstrom of floating candles

Evokes this shimmering anoesis

The sky is dead, my sense bereft

But I've wrought safety in this catachresis

Darkness overcomes the world but darling

Don't forget the candle still between us

My mind afire from every lie

And every promise broken

Mountains scream into the night

Tormented words unspoken

And here I am, the sycophant

The coronate revulsions

I see you in the dead of night

When armor holds its silence

Inhaled velvet you speak to me

With brayed: the stone’s defiance

These ribs may yet crack under heel

Array me for the lions

All of me naught

The maelstrom of floating candles

Evokes this shimmering anoesis

The sky is dead, my sense bereft

But I've wrought safety in this catachresis

Darkness overcomes the world but darling

Don't forget the candle still between us

I belong to nothing

You find harbor in the

Vacancy thereof

These lashes, torpor

On our heartbeat, cauterant

There’s one more in me

We were meant to wander

Aimlessly forever

Pauperized together

Darkened torpor

On our heartbeat, cauterant

The maelstrom in me

But darling don’t forget the candle still between us