Pain

Penetrative prodigious plundering pestilential prod of pain
Ambiguous avarice amassing astounding avalanche of ache
Injuriously instigating incessant inconsolable irritation
Nattering numbness needling nerves to nail the heart with fire and fear. 
                                 ii
Feathers flocking night
The rocks gnaw the flesh of sight
Icarus groans death

The stake through the tongue
The vice tightens without end
I crumble in skin

What singes the brain
Stranding me in motion scraps -
The hog teeth of pain.

                                 iii
O Christ, your cross spike
My flesh, plundering virtue
From my callousness.

Trembling nail in me
Biting bone breaking blood's vein
Winces through the night

Vinegar or gall
I would drink for ease of pain
And blind fear of death

Yet to die is ease
I seek but grimace away
In sweat and shaking.

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