I am almost among the nonexistent, teetering on a precipice The last marrowed bone scaffolds Still extrude offered up for the impact Of a rolling and searching and beating tide of fear Night and blindness If I am not recognized as real, What is done to me cannot be described as violence What lays ahead of me will not be worth remembering, A systemic incompatibility I remain, suspended, but still, strangely, animated Night and blindness A scepter, a specter, a scythe A precipice refuge Ordained for endangered life Exposed, and barren, and windswept Sovereignty claimed through the work of death A spiral transgression A spiral transgression Night and blindness A scepter A specter A scythe Transgression ingrained through suspended attack An enemy's revelation Sovereignty claimed through the work of death A spiral transgression Night and blindness A scepter, a specter, a scythe Witness to an amputation Ordained for life laid bare The sequelae of excommunication Night and blindness A scepter A specter A scythe When the blood of the other Is an attempt on my blood When the life of the other Is an attempt on my life Existence anchored in erasure Existence for a ruler of life A few scented flakes of violet 'With his death fade the dreams of the world' Life beyond utility A thing condemned Forced to stand All transparency and massacre Decreed to be nothing Ungrievable In death-worlds of exception