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What you wanted was war Thundering and merciless Wanted Armageddon to roll in So you could follow every avenging angel Brash with bloodlust And feel righteous in the end I felt the shift in the atmosphere Heard the horsemen, saw the lightning But I had long ago grown weary Of desperate, clashing swords You built trebuchets So I built walls Studying the stillness of stones Observing the physics of load bearing and Force balancing and Standing unshaken as the sky itself shatters The onslaught was calculated Unyielding and arrogant But of all the accusations lobbed over the ramparts The only ones that drew blood Were those fashioned after my own devices Those festering things that grew out of my nightmares Seeded with the secrets I'd once let fall in peacetime You've called out endlessly for my head But I won't bleed out for you here I've been studying the patience of water The salty tracks quietly working their way Through all the hard places Out to the sea I won't bleed out for you here I faced the red maw that would unmake me I spun my own stitches out of ether And lived
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Oct 26, 2022
Oct 26, 2022 at 7:41 AM UTC
The Patience of Water
What you wanted was war Thundering and merciless Wanted Armageddon to roll in So you could follow every avenging angel Brash with bloodlust And feel righteous in the end I felt the shift in the atmosphere Heard the horsemen, saw the lightning But I had long ago grown weary Of desperate, clashing swords You built trebuchets So I built walls Studying the stillness of stones Observing the physics of load bearing and Force balancing and Standing unshaken as the sky itself shatters The onslaught was calculated Unyielding and arrogant But of all the accusations lobbed over the ramparts The only ones that drew blood Were those fashioned after my own devices Those festering things that grew out of my nightmares Seeded with the secrets I'd once let fall in peacetime You've called out endlessly for my head But I won't bleed out for you here I've been studying the patience of water The salty tracks quietly working their way Through all the hard places Out to the sea I won't bleed out for you here I faced the red maw that would unmake me I spun my own stitches out of ether And lived
10/25/2022
#surviving
kassiani
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kassiani
32/F/American
Oct 26, 2022
Oct 26, 2022 at 7:41 AM UTC
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