Sinking
Dark lunacy enters my head,
spectres of schizophrenic design,
relentless in their attack on my sanity,
angels of decadence,
here to rid the world of my
walking, breathing corpse,
black ships of chaos,
anchoring to stormbound skies,
merchants of insanity,
my mind swallowed,
sinking beneath the tides.
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Submitted on March 20, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Words | 47 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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