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Let the Eagle loose at night
As time flies with heavy wings.
Tip the glass upside down,
Bleed with its grain.
Teeth and bone tear open this man
Who slashed the ground beneath us.
Cut your hands and held them.
So desperate to
feel
I ask now only for penance,
So that I may heal.
I will wait for time.
Eyes to the floor
Hands around the clock.
Govern my soul
Have no mercy on my flesh,
Leave it out to rot.
I pray God forgives me,
Because I know that I will not.
- Olivia Harley Sykes
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