Hollow Tube

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Perfectly, it understands me

This hollow tube of thought

Has gone weary of working for so long

Like a child forced into labour

Barely conscious

Indefinite and uncertain

Of this place.

I don’t think you could even call it that

This strange, strange thing

Taking a slow toll on me

Brainwash and surgically mutilating

My insides, manipulating my organs

Tearing me from limb to limb

Until I am completely silenced

Unable to utter a word.

Blank, over and over

Lost in this world of mine

Difficulty placed on empathising

With not theirs, but my own

For what else can I say?

Other than I am nothing,

Nothing but I am,

I am definitely my own.

Completely faded away

Like a stain on a well washed cloth

The traces are still there

Hard to see but they’re still there

And I’ll forever weep for them

For it is they who need mourning

Not this hollow tube

Of what was once a human being.

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