I erode without falter Riding on the prayer that holds a pretty notion To detach much like my former self shepherds euphoria The salt burns, red flesh blooms, puckered and ignored Hear me you beast of the sullen depths! ****** into submission, subdued through the dull ache I do not deny my servitude, I relish in it The plummet expected, a death desired An appetite for masochism seeks recipes for avidity The bruises left are a sweet delight, a benevolent impression A taste of copper and gray swindles a once ignorant soul Walk me to the ****** existence of man, we’ll watch its rapture That flaccid timber where he sits burns, forever embedded The nights of putrid orchards sought after with vigor We are burdened and writhing, just as ***** ought