Visceral retches clawing at the air
Even unto my very death
Reality shall taste so rare
Yesterdays marred and tainted
Truth and memory are not acquainted
Here at last I'll find my peace
Inside the silent void
Nothing left - all life destroyed
Going where even time must cease
Inside oblivion I might find
Serenity or chaos
Until then, I'll lose my mind
Never minding such a loss
Touched by stars, stuck in grime
Oozing from my pores
Untie the noose, unfurl in time
Changing the locks on all my doors
Heat the knobs till they can't turn
Ending everything in a single burn
Dancing in the ashes
But fire can't burn forever
Untie the knots before they sever
Time lost in distant flashes
Forget them all, these words I say
Or these letters that I type
Reality holds more sway
Ever more than any earthly gripe
Visceral reactions have no place
Enclosed in civilized assembly
Real or not, wipe them from my face
Caught in lifelong hypocrisy
Here at last we'll all find peace
Amidst the crowd where individuality must cease
Never minding that it's all an act
Growing ever more or less deranged
Everything is untouched but forever changed
Drowning in the abstract
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