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LUCTUS

Frost spiralling on glass, 
It’s misting, 
Yawning limbs of moss glued on my windowsill, 
And it’s still, 
Still, I pondered, a treacherous task, 
I pondered wanting and missing and trapping, 
Like a ray of sunlight, 
Enclosed by the silk of a spider’s wing; 

Can it be explained away? 
This strange lovehatred, 
That has me undead, 
Numb and in pain anyway, 
Frozen to the bone with frostbitten lips, 
And a midnight’s nightshade kiss, 
Devoid of the warmth you stole, 
This death is slow, 
The sink is splashed with crimson, 
And there’s screaming in my head, 
Along with a sort of silence that’s strangely red; 

Contend 
with that which you fear, 
And you be left with tears, in tears, 
Is there a thing stronger than the terror, Loneliness? 
A being more potent 
than the Agony of being broken-hearted?

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