A tale of men who went numb

How do you describe what has no description?
How does one define what has no definition?7
You will never know
Even if you sit behind the walls of Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina

There is a want
There is a longing
But if the longing is never fed
It kills you
It kills yet the strongest of men
Gnawing the intestines and flesh first
Before it makes a feast off the soul
Leaving behind nothing
Not a tiny debris

How do we tell you that we are like vampires
Waiting for centuries in fear
Not of longing
But that we may peer into your familiar face
And all we 'd see is a hollow of nothingness
That our blood freezes at your sight
Sniffing in nostalgic air
Then our breathing sighs and curls up in the deep of our lungs

This is the story
Of men who went numb
Nails and teeth dig into supposed skin
But they plunge out bruised
There is nothing left
So goes the tale of men who went numb

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