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Strange relief descends From the silver skies, The morning is empty Spacious and calm Will it fade from my thoughts As I wade through this age Or defy the tide Of these nefarious times?
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Will my Beloved storm Ever fall to this earth, Rise up from the soil And cry out for me? Will I meet the open arms Of its sultry form, Entangled in its madness With my own songs of havoc? Somewhere, Someday Will these sweet dreams Descend?
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I’m filled With savory And selfish delights, I’m on the verge of keeling over With a madman’s smile Let the feast continue Let the melodies soar Above feral drums I’m filled for this moment For this short-lived flash, It’s all I’ve ever wanted As I cruise unscathed, Beyond light and shadow
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An armada of steel Has returned for my rusted frame In this shallow backwater, The horizon thunders So I drift from the reeds Dislodged from decay, Fit again to reap glory In the roll and crash Of a boiling black tide
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When the reins slipped away The scalding agony was brief But I swerved, synchronized With the road’s rhythmic whims I answered every urge Without the gleam of fortune Spilling through the fog And seducing me forward
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I’m tired from this frantic day Of shape-shifting into villains For each blurred passerby I’m parched and tongue-tied From belting out the songs Of distant battles, When my own themes Are ensnared deep within
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I’ll pay for these passing joys As I ought to Tomorrow With hellfire burning In these bloodshot eyes With the spoils of war Rushing from my entrails I’ll learn Then unlearn, In a fool’s maddening rush
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Today every thought of mine Is a quivering mirage, Given color and sound By a demented sun All I believed to be sure Become rolling bluffs To be cleaved apart By a nightly breeze They’ll return to form tomorrow When the pearl-grey dawn Has ashed away
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I lived through her cyclones, Blended To a senseless pulp Flowing slow and easy In a lovesick daze I lived To rush free Beyond the whirlwind’s reach Drawn to the open sea Where a new storm awaits









