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The Snake and the Lover
give me your heart
you wicked lover
who lives beneath my bed,
in the folds of my sheets
and whisper gleaming words
lies? I do not know.
whisper about death and dreams
and freedom in the dark.
I sleep and thoughts reel..
You wretched snake,
writhing within my mind!
I do not need you!
You are poison, venom,
hot pain like a jagged dagger.
Stab me until I do not feel!
take my soul, I do not need it
it is dead, a tattered cloth
not worth a penny, not worth a damn.
can I die alone,
so I do not disappoint?
Can this lover and this snake,
one in the same
yet radically different,
leave me be?
emancipate me?
Unlock these shackles!
I will cut you out of my hair!
to be alone,
that is real freedom.
I long to taste the sun
or
the dirt in my grave,
but I don’t want to hear
the screaming in my heart
anymore.
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