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SHADOWS. Sunset shadows creep across the wall, Memories flit through the mind Coagulating into an unlit pool Where dissembling thoughts unwind. Then all is utter darkness, Opaque, a descent into barely contained distress. Thoughts lay dormant An incantation in a poisoned sacrament Waiting for the moon to wane, sun to rise, Excoriated by refreshed light Burning into the mind’s dull eyes Destroying the mind’s dull sight. The sun exposes every cranny Evolution of moss and vine, Lucidity shuffled aside to free What lies behind the surface shine. Once exposed, what can we know? We cannot illumine the mind’s cavernous flow. An untended wall will last fifty years And then break apart and fall. Destroyed by fears That over time weaken and spoil. Within each of us there is a roughly built division Turning our forms into dust, blown into the sky, by demons driven.
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Sep 3, 2016
Sep 3, 2016 at 7:15 PM UTC
SHADOWS
SHADOWS. Sunset shadows creep across the wall, Memories flit through the mind Coagulating into an unlit pool Where dissembling thoughts unwind. Then all is utter darkness, Opaque, a descent into barely contained distress. Thoughts lay dormant An incantation in a poisoned sacrament Waiting for the moon to wane, sun to rise, Excoriated by refreshed light Burning into the mind’s dull eyes Destroying the mind’s dull sight. The sun exposes every cranny Evolution of moss and vine, Lucidity shuffled aside to free What lies behind the surface shine. Once exposed, what can we know? We cannot illumine the mind’s cavernous flow. An untended wall will last fifty years And then break apart and fall. Destroyed by fears That over time weaken and spoil. Within each of us there is a roughly built division Turning our forms into dust, blown into the sky, by demons driven.
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Sep 3, 2016
Sep 3, 2016 at 7:15 PM UTC
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