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The Insomnia That Plagues

Kept awake in the darkness, under a heavy starless sky,

As I lie here restless, a prisoner of the in between.

Tempestous Hell beneath me, tender Heaven afloat up high.

How can you exhume a soul, especially one unseen?

Raging emotions consume me, like an insatiable fire,

Yet I again fade away to the light, howling at an invisible Moon.

Night brings again this haunted obsession, se...

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