I am delivered to the ravages of habit

the life-long suicide of sedation and befuddlement

that spells so hard an end to this thread

all I craved killing me by degree

and nothing in the ears but the 'I told you so's

of loved ones trampling their torment in my eardrum

as much a reaping for anything I might have sewn

as for the dreaded and fatally ignored outlook...

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