Tag: ending
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Everything Left Behind

Softly the last vestige of light fades from eyes filled with gray years, gazing through an open window out to sea…
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Beginning

I’m supposed to write a poem about beginnings, and I can’t think of how to start it. Irony is not dead.
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Way Down

Remember what you said to me when the sky fell Screaming streaks of color that painted us invisible
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Lights Out

There were people inside when the lights went out.The roads emptied, the world was still.Starlight whispered in the night— A million worlds in the depths of nothingWhere we were never meant to go.Find the way through, come back with light For those huddled in the darknessWho wait for the return of sweet air.Cold breath that…
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Endings

Hands scarred and hardened with useStrike wood and metal to create steel magicCoaxing demon cries from the choking neckBending wails echo off marble ceilingsScreaming upward ever higher To pierce the veil and reign in new dayHeralded by thunder. A thousand kings march to slow deathPassing into shadow without care or thoughtSwept into the wash of…