Staying clean for a dead girl This worldly voyage Through temptation's domain Has proven motion is as hurtful As it is absurd Zeno walked gladly to grave And obsessed through impossible days Hell is no post-mortem sentence That burns your eternal essence It's in every stark step and breath Hell is between here and death And in the face of impending behemoths I am shielded by paper-thin virtue I am revived by deposited sin I am reborn as anguish begins Calmed by a plethora Of misquotes And comforting, proverbial superlatives Though who am I? Who am I? To deny your survival? Or the tenets upon which it rests?