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Ashes-7/24/2009
Ashes
Lost memory
A new start
Finding out
That
You can kill
With ease
Yet, can no longer
Sleep
Ashes
People come
They go
Sometimes by
Your hand
Love?
Known or not
Uncertain still
Ashes
Children are
Inviolate
But so are you
Solitary destiny
Chosen or not
It's immutable
Ashes
Until
Impenetrable defenses
Are
Breached by
A singular presence
Awkward and solemn
With a smile
That transforms
And eyes that trust
Ashes
What are you now?
A creature
Displaced
Neither stone nor cold
But flesh rebirthed
Hope reinstated
Still, contingent upon
The awful
Vulnerability
Of
Hapless devotion
Ashes
The age of reason
Dawned
For one brief
Transforming day
Until snuffed
Out by
The
Inevitable blanket
Of
Starless night
Ashes
You broke the
Bargain
And
He paid
With mortal
Pain and blood
Engraved forever
Upon the
Ribbed landscape
Of
Your scarred
Soul
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