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MomentsMoments like these racing through me: / Looking out the bus window, / stacks of lights
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Sail BoatsSometimes the sway feels like marching / Marching like I’m dreaming / While sleeping with the wind
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City ChaosChaos humdrum of roaring engines. / The lost siren between concrete slabs / Ricocheting its scream throughout
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Just a DisappointmentJust a disappointment / I don't hate, / It’s just wasteful-
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I have been what you are.I've been where you are / In the darkness / Filled with night lights
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Clip from a child: The All-rounderA small one remembers / fingers taut and ***** rounded, / Smiles evened, amongst quickened hands-
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Midnight dyingThe days squeeze / all the air from lungs, / all the blood from veins;
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You didn't say goodbyeWe played the rhythms of our talks / like candle-lit shadows on these walls. / All through the starry skies,
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WoundedYou fed my dreams, like a needle feeds my pain, through my broken veins: / A silver bullet to my heart, your lies ripping me apart. / When I turned, looking for your burned,
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SpooningI dug a hole / with a spoon. / Stainless steel twists of
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