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One more moment of silence And he would’ve sailed on Shedding all of his strength His fear-ridden skin But he lunged in defiance Into midnight’s reign, While greedily gasping, Clamoring for breath Or was it all a dream? A consoling tall tale For his hollowed out bones And his earth-bound frame
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A highway curves to the east, To the fringes of a kingdom Bursting with light And the pangs of the redeemed I seek the steep climb And the scenic decline To their thunderous plain For their rescuing embrace So my phantom misdeeds Will float in defeat To the quiet domain Of dreary days Long past
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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: Tomorrow The dams will break Tomorrow, the fields Will know water and wealth Tomorrow, the sun Is the signal to rage And writhe with new joy When the waves Are powerful and high Tomorrow, tomorrow Is the chorus of today A rolling inferno within The madly impassioned Boil over with…
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The day has grown rancid and cold In its flooded bell-jar Now panic flies high The hours drift by In a wide-eyed hush And await the red talons Of a soaring hereafter It patiently fumes Braced for the shatter For calamity’s dive Ready To be freed From the blistering silence
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I watched shadows dance across the hall In the red glare of dusk; All pitying and mocking, Shape-shifting and plotting Sending quakes through the walls With their strange jubilee, Then crashing and tearing Through my thin-plated skin How could I have known They were wielders of mercy? How they’ve sown the seeds Of my kindhearted…
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Reborn in a steep crest of sound He tumbles ashore With his cranium afire Reluctant to breathe All the melodies he’s earned From that rolling black sea, He drags them inland He yearns for more time, For his gathered mass of kin, To dwindle and disperse And return another day When the silence weighs heavy
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I’ll deny the hunger to the end, Every jolt of remorse That crawls in my skin, The sharp pains of revolt As my pipe-dreams clash And grow into beasts, Setting free ancient pangs, Sowing mayhem in my skull I will lead them to the tower Where they’ll raise a white banner Once my voice falls…
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Let the anthem rush forth From your quiet, conspiring hands Be courted along By lightning reveries Tailspin Undone, Falling oceans away From the sanity of home Fall into the hush Of your ink-pocked realm, And escape the war-cries Of frontiers ago
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Nightfall buries The smoldering bones of the day As a burned out legion Limps homeward-bound The shadows are kind, Smothering their sins All the deeds they carry From the blood sunrise Still the black skies sing The days blazing refrains In intervals of thunder And bursts of light
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I’ve plunged Overcome, by the still grey waters Spun out in bright flames To the end The plumes of black smoke Have loosened their grasp Now a new villain snarls From the nightmarish depths “I’ll claim the night sky Reconvene with the breeze” “I’ll cleave the night sky In a burning red arc, Through each…
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