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Love is the blackest of all plagues

A soft iron in the blue flame

A dirty needle in the sick vein

A desperate penance for a broken faith

Love is the blackest of all plagues

More white on the blank page

A deep pit in a dark cave

A desperate sermon for the end of days

Call out to me in the darkness

Faith is a torment

But torment won’t save us

Scream that love is a fortress

But it won’t hold in this vacuum of nothingness

In the maw of emptiness

Faith is a torment

In the covenant detritus

God’s gone and nothing’s replaced him

Loss is the rot at the soft place

The give in the vital brace

The brutal end of brutal things

The desperate groping as the light fades

Loss is the rot at the soft place

The still hand on the blank face

The one thing we can’t unmake

The final pillar of a one-way faith

Toiling nights of loneliness

My cure is your pestilence

Desperate nights got me delirious

Yahhh

Call out to me in the darkness

Faith is a torment

But torment won’t save us

Scream that love is a fortress

But it won’t hold in this vacuum of nothingness

In the maw of emptiness

Faith is a torment

In the covenant detritus

God’s gone and nothings replaced him

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