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I once swore to live

I once crawled to breathe

I’ve endured the will to suffer in silence

It’s been years since I could feel

Your beating pulse, the only one here

And alas, only I am to blame

In my fictitious fight I see you smiling

As if you could bring me home

In this shattered shell I am alone

Electric hearts and shackle wires

The dearest noose you can’t afford

The dearest noose you can’t afford

I am still a soldier in this ward

The stillest soldier in this ward

This is not a dream...

I give up

It’s like a closed casket reunion

A comatose cathartic movement

Some of us were born to burn

Like a thousand suns,

My soul is fucking old, an antique urn

I once swore to live

I once crawled to breathe