Downward Spiral



Defeating greatness pleasure
virtue transformed vices
Attackers practiced beliefs
effects incurred prices
Generations deficit hollow
ignorance ignoring responsibility
Discovered available worshiper
sub-human exception mentality
Conditional complete living
inverted irrational reason
Transfused willing weapon
personal sacrifice treason
Actions performing conclusions
grinding miserable mortality
Enslaving ownership preoccupation
failed clamoring reality
Damned injection corruption
recognition regarded praise
Sanctioned standard revulsion
insolent social daze

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Submitted by Soul-to-song on June 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEAEFGGGHEGEGIGI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 561
Words 60
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20

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