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There comes a time of day where I must put my electronic and ink pens away, for another day. I could write well into the night, in the west it is, after all only eleven, but I am spent, stars out in the Heavens. Oh to write so there is no malice and no spite, to rise with the 'morrows ball of gas and orange fury. Hope...for a different start. But I am merely a man, solo or in soliloquy, I cannot do it or make it alone, but that is what I try to do. Hope...does not lie in jest. Everyday we live to breath is a test? For the real race which is far away or near to our heart's place? Hope... is fleeting take a chance. I will. That is where I err. I f'ward sail while looking aft, I see not the rocks, foaming at the bow. Hope... is less without you. I am less without you. Not that I am all that you can hope for. Inattentive, I missed your leaving, you found a lifeboat as I was only finding rocks and the press of the unfriendly waves. Hope... left me grounded. But the shores sharp spires eroded my hull, my ship, my soul so I was left and hope was no longer on my lips or keeping me afloat.   Even the brightest stars faded, mouth open in a cry, as I drank deeply and sank into my selfish depths. Goodbye hope. As my darkest thoughts await me, no dragged me down. Waking no more.
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Feb 17, 2013
Feb 17, 2013 at 2:19 AM UTC
Past and Present: Tangled by the sounds of it.
There comes a time of day where I must put my electronic and ink pens away, for another day. I could write well into the night, in the west it is, after all only eleven, but I am spent, stars out in the Heavens. Oh to write so there is no malice and no spite, to rise with the 'morrows ball of gas and orange fury. Hope...for a different start. But I am merely a man, solo or in soliloquy, I cannot do it or make it alone, but that is what I try to do. Hope...does not lie in jest. Everyday we live to breath is a test? For the real race which is far away or near to our heart's place? Hope... is fleeting take a chance. I will. That is where I err. I f'ward sail while looking aft, I see not the rocks, foaming at the bow. Hope... is less without you. I am less without you. Not that I am all that you can hope for. Inattentive, I missed your leaving, you found a lifeboat as I was only finding rocks and the press of the unfriendly waves. Hope... left me grounded. But the shores sharp spires eroded my hull, my ship, my soul so I was left and hope was no longer on my lips or keeping me afloat.   Even the brightest stars faded, mouth open in a cry, as I drank deeply and sank into my selfish depths. Goodbye hope. As my darkest thoughts await me, no dragged me down. Waking no more.
darrell-wade-elverum
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Feb 17, 2013
Feb 17, 2013 at 2:19 AM UTC
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