The Gallows

The gallows! the reckoning in the gallows! I contemplated the agonies of what I chose, and soon the stormclouds encroached. Starving sharks waited in the crimson shallows for a feast of violent delight. If this life is a myth then give me my freedom in metamorphosis. Who can I trust in this life? Who can I survive? This gnawing hunger like a riptide that seized me in the nights! Yes, I dreamed of Ascension in your eyes. Desire this harrowing in my throat. What lies beyond Babylon? I was an extravagant being in the fevers of evening. And I needed—