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What would you give to break free from death? To breach through its enclosing walls Then flee with unrepentant joy Becoming weightless, Detached From the whirring gears Of a doomsday clock
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The remnants of an argument Still swirl around me, Like devilish embers In a soft-hearted breeze
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I must tie down this idle time And lock it away With a thousand other moments of refuge To revisit for shelter When the heavens well-up and explode Into a riotous, pelting rain
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I’m pursued by a distant voice, By the twisted songs Of my former self They curse every traitorous urge I conceive in the present Set aflame By my fearless stagger Into ash and oblivion
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To be reeled into the certainty of the past Onto the sands of a memory As an evening fog rolls in
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“We regret to inform you” Is the prelude To a downward spiral To the shambles of a home Consumed In remembrance These few words kill Like the fateful rounds spat At the close of a war
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So long to this sacred ground It is only dust Before a steady gale Of broken vows
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Because It burdens me with joy Sowing me deep into the cold black earth So my stomach never turns with remorse At a full life lost In the shackles of a distant dream Because It tunnels into regions unknown And I must stay true, Along, Its maddening curves I must when Its call Descends upon…
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Today, I roamed through the sewers Of a thunderous kingdom, To be free From the lassoing rays of the sun
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Originally posted on Raja's Insight: Congratulations to the following contributors whom have been chosen for the literary publication Microaggresion- Then & Now Microaggression Then & Now Contributors: ? Don Beukes – Preface, Diary of a Coloured Boy, The Restaurant, The Beach Xavier Smith – Microaggression, Microaggression: A Fabricated Reality Michael Griffith – Acclimation Alicia Minjarez…
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