Agonizing Numbness He found the girl of his screams He cut loose the ones that say, "Yes" He consumed the ones that say, "No" He sat on a marble floor and inhaled her death Slowly and deeply Her death, the final nothing The dumb and stupid reality of that nothing He loved her dead He loved her so much that the brutality of her nonexistence scared him Agonizing numbness

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