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It tears us asunder and lays us to waste

Voices like thunder, a morbid embrace

Descending into ruin, all credence defiled

Casting aspirations, all love swept aside

Lifted up into her arms

Crushing the life from me

Benighted to all her charms

Perpetual dichotomy

Disintegrating schism

Lost in a reverie

Tumultuous conundrum

Elucidate this mystery

She is my nemesis

Bringer of woe, and my death

She is my succubus

My rebirth and every breath

Desecration – these wounds bear no scars

Desperation – an exercise in self-abuse

Degradation – smoke and mirror masochism

Self–deception – cloak and dagger sadism

From the smoldering embers there springs a tiny flame

Into a radiant phoenix reborn through death again

Deep beneath the debris a new seed takes root

From whence a towering oak will flourish once more

The brightest light casts the deepest shade

And in her night, with sanity frayed

Never from this dream awoken

Somehow the circle remains unbroken