In that golden hour
when memories fall
like photographs from
some upturned valise ,
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Covered in esoteric symbols
like the record of some
bizarre travelogue through
magic , time and space .
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Faces shimmer in the
cool night air .
Those ghostly lanterns
then disappear in a
mist ,
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While forty-two saints read their lives .
The Knave , a Sleeping Princess
and the King of Hearts ,
all gone now and
dust stops their mouths .
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But in another century
blazing with the fire of
a thousand suns ,
then giants walked the earth
and made all time their own .
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Though now , as I sit here
in this solitary room
marked by time's passage
and the romance of decay ,
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They seem to live still ,
more vibrant and bejewelled
than the phantoms of daylight
and their prisons of the mind .
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In dreams they speak to me
in foreign tongues
and in curious manner , like angels
they confound my understanding .
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In daytime they leave messages
and strange symbols ,
in numbers and
words that are not there .
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The Moon is shining bright .
Their voices sing in the wind .
Everything is just a story
and all of it is real .