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Decisions of Eternity

The woods are such a darkened place

Corrupted by the world we live

A cold, undisrupted space

Used by the world as its sieve

 

I seek to please only the one

The one, the one, which pleases me

It is the dark of which I sung

Near stark ground and the cold tree

 

But the ground grows cold

And the bark has grown rough

My love has grown old

Yet I have not enough

 

The crossroads at which I have stood,

Harken first to the land I love

Then to another made from wood,

To be a statue or a dove

 

Freedom from man or freedom from me

So I choose to build what I cannot destroy

and break from the strains of society.

For I refuse to act as but a child’s toy

 

On the curb of eternity

Living only to be free

Trapped by the will and the seen

That which is not those but only me

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the-old-river
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Nov 23, 2013
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