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Jan 2015
We’ve come to this fork in the road, divided by tunnels,
As the lights come blaring down we’re caught in this struggle.
Right or left – apart or together?
Do we accept our fate or continue to endeavour
Down a road we both know isn’t really working?
As every day goes by it feels more like a circus.
Going round in circles, performing for the front row
While the theatre is emptying and it’s our closing show.

Do they know with every smile and cheer
It only makes it even clearer
To us that we are not who we thought we were?
And after every night of passion that occurs
That stagnates in biology,
Rather than combine us spiritually,
We turn away from one another with the of shame
Drained of lust, replaced by this awful pain.

Now I know there were good times, I’m not saying there wasn’t,
But they seem so distant and repulsive. I know it shouldn’t
Make me feel like that, I should look back and smile
But too many mornings have gone and I’m too many miles
Away from where I should be. Though I’m not sure where to go.
Bound this close to someone doesn’t allow me time to grow,
We both can’t be our best when we’re locked on the same course,
While we’re fighting against the wind and some divine force.

We’ve come to this fork in the road
Where the questions to answers remain unknown,
And behind the past seems as dark and tiresome.
Now the lights have gone out and I’ve lost track of the breadcrumbs.
So do we link hands and wade into the mire,
Or forever part in a blaze of broken promises and fire?
Do we stick to the lie just to make our lives easier,
Or be true to ourselves and begin to see things clearer?
James Smith
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