Brought before the elders
Anchored here
Seeking the vampire's kiss
Chained by fragments of lust
Abrasive diamonds
Burning agony inhaled by lungs
A self-inflicted poison
Toxic
Taken in micro-doses
With eyelids shut and heart open
Aching
Tied to a barren future
Erosion splits those atoms
Delineating truths
With resonance cascading
Schrodinger's remorse
Guiltless
Beguiled by a shelter still refused
Now dwelling in shadows past
Remembering
Old Fezziwig and dance
With delicate occult encryption
Magic inked
I paint myself with colors cursed
Weaving out of this delusion
Parasitic
A self I barely recognize
Sanguine falsehoods reconvened
Congressional remorse
And constellations hastily rejoined
I stand before the mirror flushed
Manic yet mannequin
To stab myself with plastic teeth
Stark rejections of modernity
I state my case
In places where craven images abound
With new takes on original sin
And graven effigies carved
Made to cradle all its novel kin
A promised land I built of old regrets
Never bitten by the bug
Or the contagion of this destiny
So I am bound to past illusions
Volunteering wearily
Self-hypnotized, all up in knots
Self-sacrificial in my madness
With hungry mouth
Seeking the vampire's kiss
The Vampire's Kiss
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