ah, but they tell me
secrets i cannot reveal!
i discovered infinity
as i was sweeping,
between the cracks in the pavement,
just out of the reach of my broom.
the spider came every night
for a week, weaving it’s gigantic web.
now all that’s left in it’s absence…
a hole in my thoughts,
named by memory!
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turning wheel….
dead bodies whisperin the grasses turned brown…water stagnant, stinkingwith blackened greed….children’s hands severed,lined up beneath the altar,sacrificed to the godsof an angry age…even the trees weep,and the mountains shudder!
i dont feel the need
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be it right or wrong,
set fire to my past,and turned in my keys.drank the rainwater from the gutters,and walked past the edge….searching, just searching,for the home of the wind!