if it will take seven years
for my body
to completely shed the cells
that were defiled
by your venomous hands
i have too many years left
until i'm freed
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i house you in my body.
if it will take seven years
for my body
to completely shed the cells
that were defiled
by your venomous hands
i have too many years left
until i'm freed