A soulless body she was Pale skin, chapped lips, dreary eyes Her ribcage filled with soil Flowers sprouting from her mouth Her veins like vines, Wrapped around her legs Her skin, ripped Corrupting was her flesh Worms coming out— Out of her senseless ears As unfathomable as nadir— She buried herself, The insignia and rosettes, The books she read, The verses she chanted, Her dreams, her fears— A forgotten temple she was Hidden in the middle Of a busy city filled with people She never knew And at night, she would write About nothingness, Her cats, the mustiness of her youth Tasting the divinity from the salt Flowing from her eyes She wanted god, she wanted sin Pondering on the elusive thought Of life and of death— She just craved for sleep Lay her body on a casket, Be one with dirt— So she drank the ink, Poisoned her senses And with her pen, a dagger She stabbed her core Rejoicing as she bled magenta— She decided to die, She decided to die Before the monsters inside Would have feasted on her meat