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I can see no Islands Across the glittering sea My mind is alone within itsself Playing among the sands No thaught, no reason Only feeling, in sepia light Everything is distant and dreamy Like a smile from long ago The nagging emptiness drowned out by shimmering birdsong the feelings of dread engulfed by something worse Beauty so sinister A dark whispering among the lights painful euphoria and the urge to escape I washed up here again so soon after I built my raft and set sail Hypnotised by the sound of crashing waves on the island of the lotus eaters
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Nov 13, 2010
Nov 13, 2010 at 3:56 PM UTC
Island of the Lotus Eaters
I can see no Islands Across the glittering sea My mind is alone within itsself Playing among the sands No thaught, no reason Only feeling, in sepia light Everything is distant and dreamy Like a smile from long ago The nagging emptiness drowned out by shimmering birdsong the feelings of dread engulfed by something worse Beauty so sinister A dark whispering among the lights painful euphoria and the urge to escape I washed up here again so soon after I built my raft and set sail Hypnotised by the sound of crashing waves on the island of the lotus eaters
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Nov 13, 2010
Nov 13, 2010 at 3:56 PM UTC
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