Extinguished from Hydrophobic by Want Of Sin

Is it wrong that I should have absorbed these things and become what I am today
A treacherous degenerate brutal human savage devoid of all decent feeling
Without conscience morals pity sympathy principle or any single good trait?
Why am I what I am?

Beneath plumes of desolation
Remnants of bridges burned
Only ashes left in wake of self immolation
Wisdom through bloodletting no longer quenched
A creature fueled off of resignation
When all that remains is scorched away
Who is it that comes to your aid?
Notches on the bedposts
And trophies to kindling
Enough never seems to come
With memories stuck on repeat
Devoid of the pleasure of breathing
Desire dwindling
All is for naught
If haunted by the echo of a heartbeat
Finally escaped the last remnants of light
In all consuming black
Somewhere between the corpses in the closet
And the letters I'll never send
In the end it's the things we are
And not the things we lack
And how we hate to conclude the story
We hoped would never end
There is something deep inside my veins
That can never be scorched away
This raging inferno
Has only brought death and decay
The fire has all but smoldered
And I'm ready to extinguish
The fire has all but smoldered
And I'm ready to extinguish

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