ANGEL OF THE ABYSS

Lucid dreams
Anxious screams
Music speaks
Hearts believe

You were the light
Your voice pure fire
Fierce freestyle
Conjuring desire

Your epic craft
Stigma uprooted
Naming mental health
Our pain transmuted

You stayed real
A phenomenal friend
Slave to opioids
They became your end

Tattooed raw
Etched like graffiti
Your work profound
Rooted in feelings

Did you try to escape?
Did you try to get clean?
The path not taken
An angel released

Your fame a vice
Your nights drug fueled
You kept it real
But you had to use

Influences diverse
From metal to grunge
Culture reverberates
Distorted by drugs

You channeled John Lennon
Echoing Kurt Cobain
Imagining release
Alleviating our pain

Hiphop melodic
Liberation embryonic
Angel of the abyss
Your lyrics hypnotic

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painting by DAVID AMOROSO: @AmorosoART on IG
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2026