I embrace these sweet patterns
arise from cold cold embers
to inhale swift pains in Hell
his designs
burnt into my eyes
silent orbs
inducing
reducing
seducing
depth
blush flushed and forced
piercing through the flesh
words barely read instead
in eulogy a voice low and hoarse
prior to my burial march
hearing the cries echo
searing into dull aches
when all is empty and without taste
"Such a waste" repeated
until it has no meaning
only shame
draped in black within a hearse
the line steady
irreversible without rehearsal
my parents trailing
plodding ahead
old age outliving youth
in my coffin
somehow lips and cheeks still vigorous red
amidst the blue blue skin
lids forced open
jasmine and incense
impart traces of stranger scents
from a mortician's embalming fluids
set beside the pallor of death
the last scoop of earth
shoved onto this berth
the final resting place
but not my end
here I live
but not in peace
here I lie
yet I did not die
here I smile
with a smile that doesn't reach my eyes
painted onto curled ruby lips
muted and terrible
despised
arise from cold cold embers
to inhale swift pains in Hell
his designs
burnt into my eyes
silent orbs
inducing
reducing
seducing
depth
blush flushed and forced
piercing through the flesh
words barely read instead
in eulogy a voice low and hoarse
prior to my burial march
hearing the cries echo
searing into dull aches
when all is empty and without taste
"Such a waste" repeated
until it has no meaning
only shame
draped in black within a hearse
the line steady
irreversible without rehearsal
my parents trailing
plodding ahead
old age outliving youth
in my coffin
somehow lips and cheeks still vigorous red
amidst the blue blue skin
lids forced open
jasmine and incense
impart traces of stranger scents
from a mortician's embalming fluids
set beside the pallor of death
the last scoop of earth
shoved onto this berth
the final resting place
but not my end
here I live
but not in peace
here I lie
yet I did not die
here I smile
with a smile that doesn't reach my eyes
painted onto curled ruby lips
muted and terrible
despised
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