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Beauty and the Beast
This is restitution
This is reprieve from the anger and guilt
Built into blood and ancestor’s soul tree
Something overgrown into blackness
Into hatred consuming from the root
To the tips of fingers
Where revenge aches the most
Consistent breathing out without
The sharp breath in
To enlighten one’s mind to reality
And the overwhelming sense of fresh air taking
Yet bound down in this bog of emotion toiling
Roaming the earth for pieces far removed
From touch and taste and wonderful life
Against a volition of your own
Breaking, degrading down into
Insanity spreading
Collecting at your feet
Dragging you under
And if the red lust were greater
Then there would be no you
In place of a beast heaving
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