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A Thousand Yards Ahead (repost)

I am this hidden place, motionless within you

 

Piercing your disguises, growing stale

You know, the ones you defined with trust

Why now put them to waste?

The thick and thin—right through you,

This swollen tension rises. Provisions fail.

Below the grunge, a soul of rust,

Has peeled away down to the bone

Not a sliver left to shed

Corpse identity unknown…

Your fate would soon be sealed,

In the promises shattered

Those scars will never heal,

Until you’re debtless ever after

The lesions drain the lies

Out all except your mouth,

And how they cheer in awe

Witnessing your downfall,

The flames will not subside

When you’re begging on the ground,

Don’t try to climb the walls

The blaze won’t melt their frost,

However there is one way out

But you must pay the cost.

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Written by
jeffrey-chamberlain
American
Published
May 20, 2016
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