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Clawing hands like ice

slow then freeze the pulse

Ensnaring wings spear the beating heart

Seeing now though dead eyes

Descending light takes form in flesh

And channels parasitic life

Trials & peril lace the strands of experience

Building the plight

Casting pillars to raise the tower

To heights crushing its base

Diverted path to suffocation

Thought a timely, absorbing embrace

Ensnared, Burrowed deep

Rearing guilt thought loyalty

The binding knife

Symbiotic covenant

lost angel, bearing the mark

Internal scares, the surface breath

Impaled on the thorns of crossing lives

The binding knife

Symbiotic covenant