Silent voices in the night Beckon me toward A slimming rite The trimming of fat My voice flies upon dead air Ensnare With a whip of spine He comes to take what's no longer mine A heavenly throe Let your friction go Be pulled apart and pulled below Into spite Something beckons me to disquiet A slimming rite Protect as you might Call it obscene; this is no ritual It's obsolescence Dull A hand reaches out; does it knock or knell Still I lay and I linger until no longer does the keeper tell A slimming rite Deny all you might This is no ritual It's retribution Though you may not see it this way Believe me, we are prone to decay I know you may not see it this way A slimming rite Like candlelight We all dim By nature's right It feels no pain It is my time Beneath will I be lain Liberated bodily An uncoupling of me A perturbing view Of the end of you Afterlife is opening An uncoupling I bring The end now in sight May usher in disquiet