Wishes Reclaimed

The End

 

Death

steals all perspective

no looking forward

or looking back

 

Finality

zero — sum — zero

relativity

lost in its tracks

 

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One Final Question

 

Bending the circle

inward

Pushing dimension

out

 

Finding true value

where logic defies

One final question

— all answers in doubt

 

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The Wages Of Sin

 

When the forest is gone

and you’re sitting dethroned

Where the trees and the animals

once freely roamed

 

Tomorrow comes crashing

through yesterday’s gate

The present transporting

— the guilt and the hate

 

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Sentenced Unnamed

 

Alone with old thoughts

my past on the run

And cornered distraught

with fate zero-sum

 

Secluded sequestered

and sentenced unnamed

The court jester’s chattel

— a minstrel of shame

 

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Bartering Fame

 

Renting the future

in debt to last year

Tomorrow defaulting

unpaid in arrears

 

Pawning each memory

bartering fame

Trading lost moments

— for wishes reclaimed

 

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Set Free

 

Speaking

without words

Painting

without rings

Walking

without steps

Flying

without wings

 

Beathing

without air

Feeling

without touch

Hearing

without sound

Knowing

— without such

 

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The Fire Of Change

 

A path between

conflicting worlds

He walked a road

of hope

The product of a

captive raid

Quanah sought

to cope

 

His spirit caught

between the folds

In buckskin born

of lace

To dance around

the fire of change

Blue eyes

— and painted face

 

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