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Temptation

It stalks you

Slowly...Surely...

Following each footstep

You are the guide

It creeps up

Unnoticed

And ignored

It reaches for you

Stretches it's grip around

Until you are suffocated

You cannot peel away it's hold

You cannot fight away it's presence

It clamps down

Twists itself into you

Molds into your mind

And strangles your beliefs

You're brainwashed by it's appeal

Tainted by it's touch

Haunted by it's memory

Tempted.

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jami-morton
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Published
Sep 18, 2010
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