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AB Nov 2011
A flickering illumination in a damp-aired room.
This lonely, glowing aura is the centerpiece of a dark abyss.
Crevices of this dungeon hide walls adourned with filth.
Suddently, wax drips from the candle reverberating an eerie echo.
This startles the only creature thriving in this everlasting, sinister darkness.

Awakened by the cease in silence and intriguied by the flame,
The moth leaves the safety of darkness and innocently begins to fly.
As he gently flutters towards the flame the moth feels something foreign --warmth.
Instinct tells him to continue flapping towards this otherwordly glow.
As if blind from birth and finally given sight, the moth now feels alive.

The combination of heat and light is addicting, he carniverously lusts for more.
Once innocent, the moth has now been corrupted by sheer ectasy.
Now, ceremoniously circling the flame basking in its heavenly glory.
Drunken with greed, the moth hastily swoops within inches of the flame.
A snakelike hiss consumes the room. --Darkness.

Its ravenous haste extinguished its short-lived salvation.
Now, cold as one-thousand winters, the moth can only dream of his lost savior
It can only wish that it had gone up in flames along with the candle now. . .
that pain would last a millisecond.

This pain is eternal.
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2020
Maybe I was born
In the wrong time and space

Or maybe it's just this country
***** up my headspace

Don't want to be a millionaire
Or destroy the Middle East

Don't want to hate my neighbors
Or carniverously feast

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Do want to timeflight travel
And sleep the shining stars

Wish that Victor Farrington
Might mean that Irish bars

Somehow know the secrets
Of this love that we call ours

Maggie and sweet Molly Malone
Trappist 1! far sun, not Mars.

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