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Amongst the swarming black of entwined love and horror

With melted skin and weeping eye

Collapsed beneath the pressure, the diamond hollow

Of aching charcoaled mind

A rusted key pressed into hands of legion deep

A terror true as fraying tendrils start to creep

Clutching laboured heart of grief

I’ll wring every ounce of blood

Down my wretched fucking throat

And I’ll drown again today

Beyond all reconciliation

Cast down to sanguine depths

Sorrow in perpetuity

The love and loss of the life bereft

Torn every waking moment

The malaise of compassion unconditional

For the love of bonfire souls

I’ll burn again today

And for the love those extinguished

I’ll drown again today