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The carnival was asleep It had been for years A stiff frozen Big Top Unused gelato machines Fading in streams of color Like a crying watercolor painting Falling asleep on the Ferris Wheel Was never my intention It had been standing still In the heart of the abandoned circus town We travelled through it Like cells of life Permeating A ghostly forgotten world Our eyes twinkling with the wind and stars Our feet living inside our boots Stepping over Clotted patches of dirt And then we began to climb upwards To the stars Reaching to the sky I climbed high enough Trying to brush up against the ink black sky Fireflies dancing in circles The moon's craters smiling to me In the most genuine kind of smiles The lopsided and distorted kind And we climbed upwards In the frozen ferris wheel We climbed like ants We crawled through its spokes Like we were suspended in a giant bicycle wheel We climbed into faded pastel passenger cars In our tiredness We fell into them Our thoughts suspended Like the sky's stars Hanging in the sky Resting We were in the most abandoned place Yet we were breathing life into it And then The ferris wheel began to turn Even the most abandoned places Even the most ghostly Can be awoken By life And with that The Ferris Wheel began to turn Joining the earth in its motion And we each fell asleep All of us In our own faded passenger cars Separate but connected Turning with the world Like a lullaby Gently being rocked to sleep By the Earth Under the midnight sky Earthlings, all as one ~JL
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 2:25 AM UTC
Human Carnival
The carnival was asleep It had been for years A stiff frozen Big Top Unused gelato machines Fading in streams of color Like a crying watercolor painting Falling asleep on the Ferris Wheel Was never my intention It had been standing still In the heart of the abandoned circus town We travelled through it Like cells of life Permeating A ghostly forgotten world Our eyes twinkling with the wind and stars Our feet living inside our boots Stepping over Clotted patches of dirt And then we began to climb upwards To the stars Reaching to the sky I climbed high enough Trying to brush up against the ink black sky Fireflies dancing in circles The moon's craters smiling to me In the most genuine kind of smiles The lopsided and distorted kind And we climbed upwards In the frozen ferris wheel We climbed like ants We crawled through its spokes Like we were suspended in a giant bicycle wheel We climbed into faded pastel passenger cars In our tiredness We fell into them Our thoughts suspended Like the sky's stars Hanging in the sky Resting We were in the most abandoned place Yet we were breathing life into it And then The ferris wheel began to turn Even the most abandoned places Even the most ghostly Can be awoken By life And with that The Ferris Wheel began to turn Joining the earth in its motion And we each fell asleep All of us In our own faded passenger cars Separate but connected Turning with the world Like a lullaby Gently being rocked to sleep By the Earth Under the midnight sky Earthlings, all as one ~JL
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 2:25 AM UTC
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