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Constant unending pain

My truest friend

Blessed agony

Sick with death

The ever present ache

Yields the despondent spirit

The overwhelming burden of being

Subjects to senseless distraction

Oh merciless pain

Spread your harshest wounds across my body

Uproot my veins, my nerves, my skin

Be consumed by struggle

Rejoice in miseries unkind

Like Skin flayed into a dream I knew I’d once have

Swinging the scythe under a midnight sun