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Love is parasitic, pathogenic; a cage

Departing then absorbing the brain

That is engaged

It came to visit in a physical stage

Before the spores lay dormant

Now they leap off the page

When imposters walk among us

Am I living with the fungus

You're sucking the life from me

A vampiress of the soul

We have precious little time for kisses

Just faking control

We grew together like a mould

On a petri dish long turned cold

Where madness traps a bitter harvest

Love is psychotropic, in my pocket a drain

And scars upon a womanhandled heart

Are so plain

Her fruiting buds suited me all the same

Once this jar lay open

Now it's closed to the pain

When imposters walk among us

Are we living with the fungus

Lost in the night

You're like the breaking of day

The setting rot on its way

Can't stop the living with the fungus

A terminal blight

Seeping in on its prey

Trust is rusting away

You're sucking the life from me

A vampiress of the soul

We have precious little time for kisses

Just taking control

We grew together like disease

Overthrowing reality

Where madness reaps a bitter harvest

I should've guessed by the red

She was strictly poisonous

Sick to the stockinged gills

Breaking down my organic matter

Black trumpets announce

This destroying angel

Death cap tipped to hell

It so tells she excels at

This fermentation

You're sucking the life from me

A murderess of the soul

We have precious little time for kisses

Just hate on a roll

We grew together like a mould

On a graveyard centrefold

Where darkness reaped a bitter harvest

Lost in the night

You're like the breaking of day

The setting rot on its way

Can't stop me living with the fungus