Exorcism
Writhing screaming atop my bed
Hopes for the future are all dead
The creatures feast and fester inside of me
Blackening my thoughts till I no longer see
Tearing me open and sewing me back endlessly
Doling out my torture with pleasure relentlessly
The demons swim in my mind
A plague of the ethereal kind
Bring me an exorcist to drive these sins away
For the demons pull my strings and I must obey
If they are cast into the abyss will I finally be free?
Or will I find that the abyss was always inside of me?
Exorcism oh what a joyous word
The prettiest that I've ever heard
-CL Fuqua
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Submitted by c_fuqua on October 31, 2021
Modified on April 09, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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