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A MidNight Reverie

by john-ashton-upston

Isn't there a better way? O'er this snakeskin shedding, Than this slow emotional death Looking for cartharsis Never to be? Please, make me, me. Release me from the birdcage, And tell me where to dream. Ah, I look for a tool of my own, Somewhere buried in the dirt, Because I am a plow without purpose, A sword in peacetime. Sheathed, but mostly lost. Meaningless, but not wandering, and so there is no journey, no art. Stagnation. Ah. And a slow morose breath. Just one long, inhale For no greater cosmic purpose, Than the exhale, fleeting. What a beauty, she said in my agonizing reverie. Smiling, turning, leaning, Oyasumi, Good morning. And the sun's lights ne'er did beam. The morning stayed dark. I died, there heart still beating.
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john-ashton-upston
American
Published
Jul 22, 2016
Time
2m
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#dark#morbid#catharsis#ramblings#musings#streamofconciousness#itwasalladream#manyintepertations#seewhatcanbeseen
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