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 Priest of Lies  (from Lachrymose)


I keep my tears in a bottle
On the window sill in the sun.

I take them into my veins
To hold the past
And dissolve the present:
To damn the hope that lies to me.


I cannot afford peace
In a universe full of you,
Priest of Lies.

October, 2004



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