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...and on and on...

Life, a broken process of unravelling

Withered wants tangled in a squalid well

To endure and fall thirty thousand times

Among a million pleas for none of this at all

Shit plunged into the deep

Too pained and too aware

Clogging the evolutionary drain

Forever circling in fear

A humdrum drowning in the dark

Treading apathy and the unknown

Whimpering, while compassion sinks below

Gilded rope of green and gold

White knuckles slip, bloodied and old

Choking on brackish sludge

Futile nods to the ones above

Fervent prayers to the ones below

The moon seeps into the hole with misguided empathy

Because it means nothing to those of broken belief

Loose skin separates from yellowed bone

Like ones will for goodness lost amongst all that is known