Civil War I hear the dripping, Effortless, Through a dotted line A dismal moonlight Absorbed, and ensnared In the trees Aesthetic reaction Encrypted so deeply An infinite wound Of darkness itself I am thinning, Slowly dissolving As if this body Only yearns to live Like everyone else Feeling this lasting presence Of the alien that has taken me, Taken me over too long, Collapsing my being And draining my life Further, farther, away from me And every time I step away I am pulled back down Even deeper, to a depth Unknown to only me