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surrounded by friends

and empty conversation

and faceless, numbing cold

the icehouse dares me to take my life

frozen is silence, life and time

immobile and suffocating

isolated and bitter

gwaning self-pity

eats me alive

trapped in this place

that I've locked myself in

thinking about getting out

but I can't find the key

I've hidden it well

in this confusing place

I squirm and bitch

but I know I'm to blame