Short Lived

Do you wish to embark?

Are you prepared for your last sunset?

By nightfall, the hue of your pupils, 

will fade to black.

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What do you need from Jealousy

and her gaggle of heckling patrons?

What frights dwell within you,

for you to entertain us with?

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Beneath is where we will go.

Purge you from the temple you reside.

We chuckle, you think you can bewitch us?

I’ll be your unsightly answered prayer

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You, who lust for Egyptian sheets on the bedroom floor

speckle-painted interior walls,

head pressed against the headboard.

With a lingering cigarette in between your lips.

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But if you must,

I’ll grant you this moment,

Go on, I applaud your selflessness,

We will never meet again.