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August Milky Way

by watchingoveryou

A memory holds the past events of the life I have led And thus it seems I've come to dread the memories I've put asleep to bed Tonight I take A small slice from the piece I have inside my head Ten hours in The road went on The stars in the sky Treading on till dawn Before it broke You asked us then The seven of us Who could have been Awake Who could have been awake to see The stars above Shining brightly You're not even Of importance now But you showed me The stars forming The stars exist Somehow The milky way The purest form With no houses in sight The world seemed Our own Hours of the drive Left to go From South to North we made It from the sun To the snow But those stars are plastered Deep in my subconscious Memories, most un-lasting What makes this one So unlike the others Was it the stars around the earth As our blankets and our covers Well the stars tuck in My memories to sleep In my bed I lay with them In my head with them I keep
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