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Left here to fall apart With white eyes staring into the abyss Life crawls away from its precious vessel Battered and broken along the seams ___ Left here in awe by the fury that was The joy and despair Rushing out of reach ___ Left here in place Where I’m meant to be Falling fast,…
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The jagged wound in the levee Is where a dead river rushes and rages To sea With innocent screams Dredging up its sins The old bitter tide swells As the world erodes To a sliver of land It levels my home When the silence is immense Rising high in the night To extinguish…
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Fade beneath the clutter Beneath the noise The immortal thrash The mad undertow Kill the merciless grind Let it fall from its nest The idol carved in your mind, Chiseled centuries ago Sink beyond the sun’s reach And disband for a while Until you’re called back home From the evening’s red tide
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There are no more encircling nightmares, Calm reveries disperse Locked in their embrace Leaving time to unravel Every sunlit path Curves just out of view Giving more of the same Old distorted regrets In the smoldering remains Of a year deferred Some thrive on, Forgetting While others crumble displaced
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Trumpets fade down the slopes of our lonely hill, They have drained away sound Leaving silence to gather Withered voices trail home To be enfolded in shadows And lie silently screaming With their villains and ghosts The fanfare is gone And burning bright Beneath a foreign sky Unashamed Out of reach
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A familiar echo is striving Wavering within Where they reigned long ago Young and yearning to escape I hardly hear them at sunrise Or the motionless days Where past tragedies surface And drag me back under Within, a daydream is stirring And scrambling away From a lone ray of light From the rhythms of my…
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Buried, on a lonely acre In the distant past Brave melodies boast And bloom through the night From the rubble of July, On my fabled 19th, An old trusted refrain Drowns out my tomorrows Still seething in the dark Burning bright, underneath I’ll relive and relive ‘Til that summer flames out
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