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Please Go Away
I think he’s laughing at me I wasn’t even sure he could see me but now I know he’s coming toward me I wish I could run but it’s too late he’s seen me if I ran he would chase me he would catch me…
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Lamentation of the Flame
Here stand the worthy at a gatheringBeneath the falling sun, lost in itInoculated against decaying timeThe poison in their veins a balm of fireDrawn from a well at the world’s center.The streets of Elysium are empty tonightRivers overrun by cleansing fireScorching the sky at the backs of the gatheredWho wait out the contagion, calling uponThe…
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Shadows in the Throne Room
The land is sick where they touched it The evil ones, scorned and forsaken Destruction the price they paid for treachery. A trail of ash leads north to the dead lands…
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Abdication
Outside a starlit window stretches a snow-filled plain Blank canvas waiting in the night for a hand to fill it. Candle flames flicker against the glass, A queen’s face reflected in a fantasy Where her mind wanders with its waking thoughts.
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Goodbye Space Ranger
The massive engines roared to life beneath him, and Silas forgot for a moment all of the black thoughts that had urged him to this point. There was only awe in his heart, and every physical sensation was melting together with the engine, his whole body joining with the metal monster in its great leap…
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A World in Daylight Beyond This Shore
His pulse aligned with the ebbing tide Foam-flecked sand awash in moonlight Losing track of the night beneath the waves…
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Wind Across the Sand
Spare me the sandstorm elegy Steel wool scouring the eyes of the past Lies whispered to calm nightmare whirlwinds And let us sleep until the final morning…
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The Book Tells of a House Made from Wax
Impossible sky of cloud and color Pulsing overhead with the power of the word Like a blow from heaven, march of drum beats, Behind it waits the end of days.
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The Moon Watches Over Us
I was distracted by the moon when voices fell like rain And brought me back from the light beyond that distant window Your smile an anchor in storm-tossed seas Hands that calm the fire for now…
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One Town Over
The street is lined with silent watchers A spectacle of starlight above and below the horizon Where their minds live, where their souls dream…
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Secret Alchemy
What once lived in darkness has tasted daylight—sweet drops of it clinging to the limbs of a forest on the slopes of the mountains of madness…
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In the Dunes
Spine bent forward by a hand that says ‘walk upright’ Eyes locked on the ground, begging to see the horizon Rolling with the tide, way out there; If the walls of the pit weren’t so steep We could climb above this suffocation and breathe.
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Steel Hope
Look up and see where the world ends Out of reach, the edge hovering always above Pressing down on fears of the beyond Grinding to dust all dream of escape—
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Hold Fast the Gate
I’ve seen this back alley before In the haze of a dream world, though awake These blinding lights strike me as familiar Behind the door up ahead a staircase descends Into an underworld that awaits my return
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Red Hair
“Do you need help?” The man in the car asked. His voice cut through the night, raised above the downpour, the steady drone of raindrops spattering against the road, the trees, the roof of his car. The girl raised her head, startled.
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