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Under the Influence
The night's song is what I see
Emptiness and apathy,
The key to it's psychopathy
Fulfillment never found in me
Remains a boiling mistery.
But anywhere I try to be
I find myself in misery,
I'm right next to you in the cemetery
You're dead even in my memory
And you're staring back at me
Your putrid eye, the color of green pea,
Fell from an imaginary cotton tree
Cooked in medium heat and served with tea.
So please, my friend,
Please help me,
What am I supposed to choose?
Life singing me putrid purity blues?
Or death reciting painful poetry?
Reality is hurting me and you
It's better if I just go now
I have to listen to my library,
The thousand faces of mortality
Because to reach this afflictive symphony
I'll have to kill what's inside of me.
So please, my friend,
Please, help me one more time,
Should I choose an eternity of pain?
Or revoke the chance to waste myself again?

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This poem has been inspired by my self-esteem mainly, but also by the painting accompanying it, which is a part of August Malmstrom's Dancing Fairies (1866)