From Out Desire's Lake

Rageful-mouthed, lustful-eyed
With a multiclawed greed.
Of no monster of myth, a man
For what's patterned after!

Rising out from which lake
Boils for hellish desires
Of all such manifestations
Most needs subdue; smother.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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