Daemon

Your sulphur catches my breath
My throat retches with your bile  : but shortly
In your presence I will become death
As if ignored : as if they could never see.


And daemon what is your name ?
I know :  ’tis “you must disappear
You should have never been here
Nor existed let alone claimed fame.”


Till now I named you incoherently
“Imposter is me, eyes that cannot see,
Ignorance and stupidity all that is me.”
Meaning my efforts to send you away failed inevitably


For now I name you and send you away true
I know now my very presence refuted you.


And for you, better that you never
Existed now, then and forever.


I don’t need to prove I was meant to exist anymore.

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