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This fixation for affliction now penetrates the ion that never had the right charge to replace

Discharging what realm of positivity I had left to embrace

Blacking out the last light left in this cold, desolate place

Feeding on my spine with every chance I get for things to be fine

The floor succumbs to my demon's divide

The fiery depths of this self treason will eat me alive

Name every tyrant I have left to defy and I'll promise you with every breath

Soaked in their name, that I've tried

I've tried

Rifts once sealed re-open to create a close

Acting as shutters for humanity's broken windows

Dimensions now fold and break as rifts eradicate the stains,

left from humanity's broken windows

This is my requiem for all mankind

These are the cries that shake the deaf and wake the blind

I'm so damn tired of this sickness festering inside

Inching closer to its purpose every time I lie

Anatomic ruptures marching onto the throne

The crowned and beaten, bruised as this tattered bone

The abuse left in splintered doorways and mangled phones by the man,

who once called this home

Caught in the currents of my past

Holding onto vices like a mast

Abandon all hope for recovery

Stare into the eyes of the life I bastardized

Bastardized

Forgive these lenses, they were stained from the start

Repent these blessings, manipulations of God's art

I've tried for so long

I've tried for so fucking long,

to make amends with the failures sin had strung

I initiate this life

Blood soaked, restless misery

God sealed away my gaze and gave birth to my wretched ways

Amending with the failures

My soles have bled this bitter race

All for the taste of clarity's face

Every time that I lose my place,

I become more engaged to the wounds that I helped create