the pain now is fire

eating from inside

fields of laughing matches

all dear so crisply fried

–

never ending ending

fat promise starving hope

cut this tether mercy

unsated jeering rope

–

if not then curdle hotter

boil blood and breath

stretch bones to cracking

sweet deliverance death

–

the pain now is fire

eating from inside

lash your angst to eldritch

and through chthonic ride