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The Shedding of Skin

The Shedding of Skin. Parched lullabies seem jarring, gentle persuasion an assault, quiet understanding reeking of decay, fatigued under this skin in which I must stay. Dreams of moulting, shedding the hubris of crafty words, flushing away all famished rhymes, ripping the fibres of an ink-stained past. Knowing. Always knowing, that honey-soaked kisses, seem destined, breathlessly, never to last.

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