Inside my fertile mother, the egg fertilized
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And from one egg, two individuals originated
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A pair of identical twins began to grow
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But in an unnatural quirk the embryos fused
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And I absorbed my embryonical sibling into me
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From my earliest fetal stages into adulthood
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His displaced cells grew as I did
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We matured together in the oddest ways
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Together as one we were born to be
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I grew up as a freak, a walking monstrosity
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A living abnormality for scientific study
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Tumorous growths on and in my body cause me pain
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Of dermoid origins, these tumors are pieces of my brother
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These teratomas sprout across my body
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As my fragmented sibling develops from my torsos
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My brother lives within
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Inside lays the internal twin
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My stomach contains rows of his teeth
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Molars and incisors grow from the organ walls
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And scalp hair clumps from external teratocarinomas
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His bulbous eyeballs protrude from my right temple and ear
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They twitch inside misshapen sockets
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Sightless they roll and gaze into black
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A toothless cartilage mouth opens from my chest
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Its rubbery spasms will never speak a word
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And his retarded raging thoughts I hear
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He bellows and cries inside of my skull
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His berserk, confused substratum shrieks drive me mad
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His underdeveloped brain grows from mine
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And his retarded raging thoughts I hear
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He bellows and cries inside of my skull
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Always he has shared my vital organs
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My heart, my lungs, and pulsing blood
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Since birth his survival has depended on me
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His nurturing has me to thank
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I am sorry brother I can no longer live like this
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It is time to finally set you free
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Subconscious echoes as my twin horrifically scrams
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The surgeons' scalpels cut him out piece by piece
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The Internal Twin
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Broken Hope |