Putrefy

Caustic, callous, contemptuous,

Strip the life away from us,

Burning, braising, boiling,

All the smiles are searing,

Rot and rend and roast,

Ripping life away.

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Ooookay, so, that was morbid...

Yeah, I just wrote that then. The alliteration in every second line draws emphasis to the harshness and meaning of each word. "Caustic, callous, contemptuous" are all harsh words with strongly negative meanings. Caustic, acidly harsh, cutting. Callous, harsh, unfeeling. Contemptuous, hateful, distasteful. "Burning, braising, boiling" all methods of cooking, involving extreme heat. burning carries the connotation of fire. Boiling and braising with cooking flesh. This is quite graphic and carries a lot of imagery. "Rot and rend and roast" all have strong images attached as well. Rot is the breakdown of flesh, a sickening, stinky process. To rend something/someone is to tear them apart, gut them, totally annihilate them. Roast is another method of cooking that connotates with cooking flesh. The other lines speak of stripping away life, killing smiles, and, by connotation, happines. I'm not entirely certain what I was thinking of when I wrote this, but after typing it up, the unknown thing that has been gnawing at me and making me feel rather depressed faded, so I'm assuming it's whatever that is.

Lemme know what you think of my little ode to morbidity.