A monster crawled from way long past my bedtime,

he said that he had met my soul before;

then dragged me to a future full of screaming

and whispered this would be forever more.

Attempting to break free and head for safety,

epiphany then barred me from retreat;

a stifled laugh was in my lame surrender,

as retribution rained down on the street.

Adrift with all my heroes in the gutter,

my prayers rebounded from a kerb of sin,

surrendering to tide I glimpsed Nirvana,

cascading past too fast to enter in.

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