seconds
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once ignored - now cherished
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as they begin to tick away
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panting, like a dog in the wind
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throat constricted
|
ha ha
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swelling as a tumor - i can scarcely breathe
|
my eyes stand in the way
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to the world i need to see
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hazy melting images coated in glue
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begin sliding from my view
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and i trample on top of them
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now a blind fool
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oh my heavy aching legs
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cannot do the work of ten men
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to lift my feet of stone
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clumsy, my arms
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long and leaden - they drag behind me
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carving deep trenches in the rotting earth
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oh so tightened
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stretched beyond belief
|
my skin cracks
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with the weight of my dying body
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and the rage inside my head
|
blood trickles down from my burning eyes
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and stings my charred lips
|
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oh dear god - if you would but save me!
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so much as a finger on my hand
|
surely i could climb
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atop a cloud in your sky
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and echo your praises
|
into the light of a new day
|
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but my words are lost
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as my bones
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snap suddenly
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and i am left to lie upon the burning remnants of my life
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seconds
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eternity
|
the clock ceases inside of me
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oh this silence, this emptiness inside
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for the grinding of my teeth at the searing pain
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of my flesh and the stench which infiltrates my every pore
|
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silence
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eternity
|
might as well relax
|
it's much too late
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to cancel
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all my reservations in hell
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seconds
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| Autumn |
