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Bitter caplets of strain make way to my bosom

Trails of rancid betrayal line my tongue

My nostrils burn from the smoke of wickedness

My eyes anchor tears, my heart labors

Emotions wilting, waning, lost.

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Where once a frame gave me hope

Now my body lies beaten and torn

A withered carcass on hardened mud

Barren and weary, a once vibrant being

Emotions wilting, waning, lost.

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The poison moves swiftly to devour

The venom like a wildfire, unrelenting

Ravaged and tattered and broken and frail

My eyes veiled in tears, my heart shattered

Emotions wilting, waning, lost.

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But like a distant trumpet, faint and from afar

A glimmer of light makes way through a crack

That cold smell of treachery dissipates

Tepid blood fills my veins, warmth meanders

Emotions awaken; I am alive; I am not lost.

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I have found me.