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It Just May Be Called A Life

I said my prayers

by the lamp of disease

Cast up my lots to

a heaven I didn't

know was there

 

I asked the question

in the back of a

left-over imagination,

scratched the pages

of my life until

they were somewhat

workable

 

And with the confetti

that I'd made

I forged a collage of

aspirations and

disillusion,

expression and

desperate pride

 

This artwork I

cleaved to my breast

as if it needed

nourishment,

held on even when

the hourglass had

long since disappeared

 

The sand had drifted

towards the oasis of

my sanity,

obscuring every truth

in drifts of

golden unmade glass

 

All that's left

is the art,

All I've got is that fusion,

the locomotion of

creation that keeps

me glued right to my seat

 

There's all that's left

is this unrealized edifice,

a synchronization,

an episode where realities

all boil down to one

 

And then we're standing here,

with a lamp and the heavens

Now we're crying here,

with the disease and a chance

 

that if something were

to come from this,

it may just be called a life...

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olivia-magdelene
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Published
Mar 24, 2010
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