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Internal Direction (Wretch of the Undercroft)

There's a punishing beast inside my head
Troubling me to never-ending dread

The only time it seems to pause
Is when extending sharpened clause

i am the one to blame
i am the one who aims

To kill it off
Needs just a notch

Hello
Arrow

Dead
Written by DCLXVI_1989 (Garrett Asa Hughes)
Published
Author's Note
For the "The Beast in the Cellar" competition
This was very fun to write by the given pattern and syllable count. Thank you to David_Macleod for conjuring it, and LunaGreyHawk for helping to talk me through points i was stuck on.
The pattern:
10a
10a
8b
8b
6c
6c
4d
4d
2e
2e
1a
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