Rigor

Slept through my alarms

Can't feel my arms

My body's there

And yet nowhere

Can't feel your harms

Grateful though I be

I reserve my glee

My eyes, they froze

Once they had closed

And I can't see

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Trapped within this mess

Screaming in distress

On deaf ears it falls

Thick are these walls

Try to move my hands

As the day demands

But there's the pain

Hungry again

With its hungry plans

Sanity derailed

Agony impaled 

This corpse my cell

Its pain my hell

So wrongly jailed

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Trapped within this mess

Screaming in distress

On deaf ears it falls

Thick are these walls

Nothing 

I want to be free

Can't hear, can't see

Rigor's got me

Fog consumes my head...

No more

Leave me alone

With my shattered bones

End my misery

Leave me there for dead

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