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A refracted trial

Administered in a sequence

Of patient cruelty

This ritual requires

Neither water

Nor dust

My curse took root

At first sight

Blood, thick

Tongue, drunk

With self knowing deception

My seed took root

At first light

I drank only of faith

And was poisoned

Here on these plains

Of vice and regret

I bear myself

Naked and weeping

Accompanied by silence

Shuddering in the light

Of the black sun

Black sun