My Dark Mistress

My dark mistress ⠀
Hanging over my head as I cease to create
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I draw her near when life begins to well up within me⠀
Offering her my soul to relegate⠀
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I am like the whale⠀
Or am I the sea?⠀
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Dark mistress, ⠀
What spell have you cast upon me?⠀
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Deathlessly, I watch ⠀
Will the firmament not shake from its high place and my body will it not enthrall? ⠀
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The gods have eaten of my body⠀
My limbs offer them song⠀
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This is how my mistress wants me⠀
Only the caged bird knows poetry⠀
For it knows not where it belongs ⠀

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