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Fear-lust-anger,
Unutterable torture,
Mine they trigger,
Wide open shutters,
Taping pedantic chronicles.

Our nerves they remember,
Hence every day I suffer,
Nightfall makes it harder,
When in my thoughts they enter-
Tapes cursed under,
Cassettes on a recorder,
Replaying over and over,
That burn might never,
No ashes nor dark ember.

Give me no coax,
Such that I will endure,
Why should I not surrender,
When dead is my abuser,
Who might’ve been my only liberator?