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Lost


Mind in chaos, heart's shattering...

I lost my purpose, and in losing it, I lost myself and my ablity to love...

Darkness is starting to reign in my thoughts...

I push it away, but it keeps twisting through my mind like a deadly vine, which will not let me receive warmth. 

It only wraps me in ice, only to keep me in the dark and blind me...

Hope's destroyed, it left me alone.

False words sting me over again, memories totrure me in pain...

And at the same time, it is a bitter elixir dripping from my lips... 

Wrapping me in loneliness,

Wrapping me in burning lies,

Wrapping me with everything it could possibly stab my heart with...

And eventually, as I start to come undone, it wraps me with the most bitter one, you...

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