in all its unscrupulous splendor
and the pleasures of plunder
it deprives me of my tranquility
with its treacherous virility
I am bathed in its eerie mists
intoxicating and enchanting it persists
yet without substance and respite
my very being pursues it despite
the withdrawals agonizing and crippling
all is dark in the moment, the abyss grappling
then a momentary silence of the moan
with a faint hope it'll last past the morn
and the pleasures of plunder
it deprives me of my tranquility
with its treacherous virility
I am bathed in its eerie mists
intoxicating and enchanting it persists
yet without substance and respite
my very being pursues it despite
the withdrawals agonizing and crippling
all is dark in the moment, the abyss grappling
then a momentary silence of the moan
with a faint hope it'll last past the morn
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