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The Fire keeps Burning

From an empty shore where the veil grew thin

Where all life ended and eternity would begin

where love was hate and acceptance was Sin

The world kept turning and I, I would grin

 

I smiled, I laughed, I cackled with glee

This was us, just you and me

Sitting alone, together, enjoying an absentee

moment of silence in which we couldn’t flee

 

We told stories that were epics of folk & Lore

Which became legends of old, too hard to ignore

Words bled from the heart, tired and sore

and crying eyes, so broken and raw

 

But winters ice kept us safe and warm

While mountains watched us as we mourn

we lay at their base so open and torn

waiting for the stinging cold of the dawn

 

I’ll tell you a secret so full of lies

With a mouth crammed with butterflies

and eyes that seek justice but never tries

to open upon a shrieking soul that cries

 

While the fire keeps burning

The world keeps turning

 

I will continue to yearn

for your return

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Written by
helen
Australian
Published
Oct 17, 2020
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