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Kokoschka

from Afterimage by Heartlapse

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I thought I recognized myself in you
and that I owned your image
dysmorphic beauty of a life too far from me.
I've built a worthless memorial to your brightness
that now appears to me as a distant land
from which I've been exiled

From the trenches, in the mud
with death reeling inside me
I've looked at this blurry picture
At least a million times

It reminds me that Your lack is in the weakness
of all my actions...
And In my blind devotion (but that keeps me alive)

I keep on sacrifcing the best of me
on the altar that I've created
venerating an unreal past

So I'm gonna give you a brand new life
I remember every skin mole and i will trace all the routes
connecting them to each other
Following cartographic maps on your skin
And from my memories
You will become more real than you've ever been before
Simulacrum of fesh,
Tongue, teeth and mouth

I keep on sacrifcing the best of me

On the altar that I've created between
your breastbone and your throat
where thousands of times
I felt like I was suffocating

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from Afterimage, released September 29, 2018

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