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Coup de Grace
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Completed Poems Endless essence in terrifying depth
Breeds inexplicable brooding
As time’s tendrils choke the life
Out of the mind’s precious sanity.
From far, from near, imagination
Floods the body’s precious senses,
Overwhelming all with the inconsistent
Awake dreams that accompany this invasion.
Understatements uttered with incredible relief
Become swamped with the tainted impurity of thought,
And Reality’s relief becomes all but forgotten
As new questions are introduced to the unquestionable.
What breaks first is capacity for the now
And importance of mortal nourishment;
Underestimated factors soon swell as the
Right flank of intellectual defenses is overcome.
Soon all sanity is conquered and subdued,
Leaving only non-reality as the last stand;
An end is welcomed to finish the torment
And soon never-ending slumber triumphs.
