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THE EARTH WAS STILL AS IT SWIRLED AROUND ME A HAZE OF ASH AND DREAMS A BURN VICTIM OF AN UNREALIZED FANTASY SCREAMING IN TWISTED EXCSTASY AS MY FACES MELTED AND PETRIFIED FROZEN FOR A LIFE ALIEN RECTIFIED WITH A SHARP OBSIDIAN ***** TO DELIVER ME REMADE HE SCRAWLED AND CLAWED HIS WAY TO ME HIS WORLD ENTIRE, AS THOUGH I COULD SEE MY LOVER ONCE DELAYED BY GRIEF AND ASHES, A MISTAKEN AIDE OF THE LOST GODSPOKE MEN HE TOLD THEM TO LEAVE HIM DIRE THAT HIS PASSION WOULD CARRY HIM THROUGH MUCK AND MIRE FIERY INTO THE REALM ABANDONED CRIES WRAPPED IN THE DUSTY ORGANZA LIES HE SEEMED LIKE AN EYELESS CREATURE BLUNDERING HIS WAY, A BLIND BEESHECHER   SEARCHING FOR LOVE WHERE THERE WAS ONLY A MAELSTROM OF LONGING REBORN IN HIS GRAVE OF PROPHETS AND GRIEF A SOLDIER SENT ONCE TO TEACH THE FIRE SCORCHING AND TWISTING MY SHROUD AS HIS WORLD WENT TUMBLING, BROKEN AND PROUD TORN IN HIS WAKE OF GRACE AND WHEN MY BODY HE FOUND ENCASED IN GLASS, AS THOUGH A TRUE LOVE AWAITS BUT WHAT HE COULD NOT ENKINDLE IN HIS HEART WAS WHAT WOULD RIP THE GLASS APART LOST IN OBSIDIAN IN ASH AND GLASS A SHALLOW PRISON OF LOSING AND LOVE AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 8:09 PM UTC
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THE EARTH WAS STILL AS IT SWIRLED AROUND ME A HAZE OF ASH AND DREAMS A BURN VICTIM OF AN UNREALIZED FANTASY SCREAMING IN TWISTED EXCSTASY AS MY FACES MELTED AND PETRIFIED FROZEN FOR A LIFE ALIEN RECTIFIED WITH A SHARP OBSIDIAN ***** TO DELIVER ME REMADE HE SCRAWLED AND CLAWED HIS WAY TO ME HIS WORLD ENTIRE, AS THOUGH I COULD SEE MY LOVER ONCE DELAYED BY GRIEF AND ASHES, A MISTAKEN AIDE OF THE LOST GODSPOKE MEN HE TOLD THEM TO LEAVE HIM DIRE THAT HIS PASSION WOULD CARRY HIM THROUGH MUCK AND MIRE FIERY INTO THE REALM ABANDONED CRIES WRAPPED IN THE DUSTY ORGANZA LIES HE SEEMED LIKE AN EYELESS CREATURE BLUNDERING HIS WAY, A BLIND BEESHECHER   SEARCHING FOR LOVE WHERE THERE WAS ONLY A MAELSTROM OF LONGING REBORN IN HIS GRAVE OF PROPHETS AND GRIEF A SOLDIER SENT ONCE TO TEACH THE FIRE SCORCHING AND TWISTING MY SHROUD AS HIS WORLD WENT TUMBLING, BROKEN AND PROUD TORN IN HIS WAKE OF GRACE AND WHEN MY BODY HE FOUND ENCASED IN GLASS, AS THOUGH A TRUE LOVE AWAITS BUT WHAT HE COULD NOT ENKINDLE IN HIS HEART WAS WHAT WOULD RIP THE GLASS APART LOST IN OBSIDIAN IN ASH AND GLASS A SHALLOW PRISON OF LOSING AND LOVE AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
this was a poem I wrote, inspired by the book the road by Cormac McCarthy
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 8:09 PM UTC
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