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the rapture

I am Human.
I'm hating what I once loved,
and
I'm loving what I once hated.
I'm seeing without eyes,
and
I'm hearing without ears.
I'm breathing without a lung,
and
Living without a heartbeat.
I'm touching the air,
and
Feeling resistance.
I'm catching the scent
of
Nothing.
I'm loving what I loved,
and
Loving what I hate,
and
Hating what I love
and
What I am.
I'm living without
ever
Taking a breath.
I'm thinking without
the use
Of my mind.
I'm feeling the rapture
without
My sense of touch.
I'm hearing all the screaming,
but
I'm not hearing a sound.
I'm tasting the blood,
feeling
It as it flows in my
body.
I'm feeling the blood,
racing
In its streams.
I'm tasting it, without
My sense of taste.
I'm hating what I hate,
and
I'm loving what I love,
but
I'm not using my mind.
I'm feeling the ecstasy
of
The moment,
but
I'm living without a heartbeat.
I'm loving what I hate,
and
Hating what I love,
Feeling everything,
when
There is nothing.
The rapture is coming,
and
I'm not alive.
I am Vampire.

regb
1993