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Eyelid After Eyelid

Death once spoke to me through a streetlight that solely flickered rushing red.

Along with the drops of acid dancing within the outlines of a thread.

One pedal to accelerate an already accelerated mind,

One pedal to reverse a raucous reaction,

Mirrors plugged to my beating flesh, pulsating time,

Wheels swirling off it's axis, succumbing to the lost traction.

Closing eyelid after eyelid, fate selected a pedal,

Roaring of both synapses and electricity,

Swerving across the bumps of light that model,

Leaving stones to break like my bones, collapsing entirely, goes my entity.

 

Water crept into my lungs.

Water replaced my tears.

Water ****** my blood.

 

He said to me, "You'll smell a smell you've never smelled before,

and sense a sensation worth dying for."

So with one last cell, and with one last breath,

I smelled and sensed the defiled Death.

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Jun 18, 2013
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