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Independence Day

Borrow me a dream,

ungodly like the beating sun,

my memories of the mourning morn,

sold to me by a government old.

 

A day I captured text perfect

on bleach’ed pulp, a seed of

thought, amongst the buried dead bodies

by the river.

 

Borrow, for I must return

it to the country I remembered,

an image burned, into the

conscious and unconscious of

a legacy we ought behold.

The sun, today, it is cold.

 

Mom, Dad - what have I done,

your ill-begotten son

Asunder and on the run,

from the plague and tyranny

rebegun

I’m living for the sinking

of the erstwhile setting sun.

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Written by
justin-blaauw
South African
Published
Mar 27, 2010
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