In velvet shrouds, the sickness sleeps, A raven coiled in shadowed deeps. Its whisper, cold as crypt-born breath, Waltzes with the scent of death.
Veins like thorns beneath pale skin,Each pulse a toll from deep within. The mirror cracks with every moan, A soul decayed, yet not alone.
Beneath black lace and candle flame, Pain speaks soft with no true name. It wears a crown of ashen dread, And cradles dreams the living fled.
So let me rot where roses died,
With hollow eyes still open wide.
For in this ache, I feel me true
A ghost that bleeds, but still pulls through.
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