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A Man in a Prison

by @carl-stevenson

A man in a prison, ‘till death do they part Burning wood a wedding ring, twisted steel the altar The roar of the flames is the voice of the preacher The only voice of reality, is that mellow brass sound Drowned about out by the precession, a chaotic occasion A man in adulthood, the world still burning Children born, from the oblivion his home They know not anything else Embracing their home with the ignorance of a newborn A man is an elder, experienced through life To find that the inferno, was just a ward To bide it’s time, patiently waiting For the end of his life, the oblivion has been realized A man playing in slow motion as the world burns around him Not a care in the world, just him and his trumpet He knows what’s coming, but he cannot stop it He just sits back, lets the oblivion consume him.
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