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May 2014
Down and falling deeper,
Don’t know why I didn’t notice
This spiral’s ***** getting steeper

Faster and faster
I’ll keep falling
And won’t notice my change

My trying to stop is,
To say the least,
Useless and annoying

This new depth I’ve reached
Is gradually changing in ways too late to foresee

The slide’s become grainy
First just leaving scratches,
The lower I slip,
The bigger they get

I see my fate
And I was proven wrong
I won’t keep sliding forever down
It will end soon
I’m sorry I’ve been a burden

You try to help me in my initial fall
Keeping you close I thought was the key
We both gave the fight our all
And I realized it was killing us…

Caution to the wind,
I must save my love
I used the rest of my strength
To push you off,
And save you before myself

Now you stand
The small pain of minor loss
Is in you eyes
As I fade from your sight

Now I see what you cannot
The end is nigh
You can tell all but how
And I whisper with my last breathe

In the abyss is forever echoing…
“I’ll love you forever and al— ”
Originally written December 2008
Benjamin Allen Yontz
Written by
Benjamin Allen Yontz  Bowdon
(Bowdon)   
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