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Calloused hands from work and wear

Stained by sin and his own fear

Glazed eyes sink

Once bright to dim

His shadow hinges

At the heels of hind limb

Trudging gait

Recedes to faint

Spirit dips

To crawl out spate

Caked in scabs

Kneeling reeds

Reflecting guilty, waves intercede

Mass hair overwhelmed

Abanding his own creed for

Unforgivable deeds

Staring into an drowning effigy

Sheathed in his serrated enmity

Polluted waves furrow and swell

As a target where his grimace fell

"Does it reflect the future that once was

Or the past that can never be?" (Reflecting Pool)

Symmetrical entity possesses haunts eternal

Reclines in the cold to meet the infernal

Caught by desolation

Owned by survival

Submerged at the moment of final reprisal

He spits in the image of himself

Humbled to hideous vision

With one final breath our

Dissolves into decomposition