Carnal Lizard

A carnal lizard
creeps in silence into your heart
knowing its way home
eating its way to solace.
 
You become its den and then
it procreates its version of
everything you fear.
 
It becomes everything you are
and makes you into a nothing
as that which you want to be
emerges among the ruins.
 
It is like him,
cold-skinned and livid,
a deciever of detriments
cloned like your cells,
so many to behold,
never growing old as you do.
 
Yet he can make you immortal,
you never have to die,
your eyes will turn yellow,
your skin green.
 
Oh, state to which we strive;
I am becoming lizard
and I cannot be destroyed.
 
Watch me lord over the flies
as I eat them one by one.
 
Uncertain air is my disguise.
I can crawl and I can fly.
 
I am subhuman and it is all I have to be
in this Armageddon of a World  
into which I rise.
 
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