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The Thorn Forest

Then dark with dripping blood it gave a howl
and cried again: 'Our damaged branches ache!
Your pillage maims me! Can't you feel at all?

We who were men are now this barren brake.
You'd grant us your respect and stay your hand
were we a thicket not of souls but snakes.'

As wood still green starts burning at one end
and from its unlit end the burning stick
drips sap, and hisses with escaping wind,

so from the broken stump there oozed a mix
of words and blood: a frothy babbling gore.
I dropped the branch. My fear had made me sick.

'Poor wounded soul, could he have grasped before,'
my sage replied, 'what now he sees is true,
and blindly trusted in poetic lore,

then he need not have so insulted you.
But as there was no other way to learn
I urged him to a test that grieved me too.

Tell us who you were, that he, in turn,
can set your honor freshly back in style
among those he will teach when he returns.'

The trunk: 'Your speech, by raising hope that I'll
regain repute, makes words arise in me.
I mean to talk, if you will stay a while:

I was the one entrusted with the keys
to Federigo's mind, and it was sweet
to share his thought and guard his strategy

for noble ventures secret in my keep —
so faithfully I filled this glorious post,
I gladly sacrificed my health and sleep...'

poem by Dante Alighieri
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Turn To Me

Turn to me, Burning me, Turn to me, Burning me
From all the taking down,
To the driving far away.
As if we're lost and found,
Removing us everyday yeah.
Pushing things too far,
Or never moving it along.
Forgiving and forget,
Only makes one person strong.
Hoping and finding, resisting, denying,
Hey, with your classic words of
Turn to me, that's what you say
When you're burning me, that's what you do
When you turn to me, need more days
And the time to turn you off.
Turn to me, that's what you say
When you're burning me, that's what you do
When you turn to me, need more days
And the time to turn you off.
There's no familiar face, or a hand to cling upon,
We've walked a short distance, but it took so very long.
Hoping and fighting, resisting, denying,
With your classic words of
Turn to me, that's what you say
When you're burning me that's what you do
When you turn to me, need more days
And the time to turn you off.
Knowing that we'll jump a little too high to live
Knowing that it's safe, but not safe enogh to give.
Your heart, your dream, no give, no recieve,
Respect, believe, turn to me.
Turn to me, burning me
Turn to me, time to turn you off,
Burning, me, turn to me, resisting, denying.
Turn to me, that's what you say
When you're burning me, that's what you do
When you turn to me, need more days
And the time to turn you off.
Turn to me, that's what you say
When you're burning me, that's what you do
When you turn to me, need more days
And the time to turn you off.
Oh why don't you, why don't you, why don't you, why don't you, why don't you
turn to me baby, time to turn you off,
Turning me not burning me, turning me not burning me, now turning me not
burning me, yeahhhhhh.
Turning me, oh burning me now na-ba-dupa-ba-dupa-ba-dupa yeahhhhhh
Turn me, oh burning me, why don't you burn me yeahhhhh
Turn to me, that's what you say
When you're burning me, that's what you do,
When you turn to me, need more days
And the time to turn you off.
Turn to me, that's what you say,
When you're burning me, that's what you do,
When you turn to me, need more days
And the time to turn you off!!

song performed by by Vanessa Amorosi
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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I am lying on the pyre!

I am lying on the pyre
A minute away from the fire
All things ready along with wood
In grudge across the river water increased
The last relative comes late and sees my face
Forget all in grief to cover my chest
Where lay the thousand wounds
For which I died a hundred deaths.
This is my last hope and honor so I cried
Oh cruel! Take away all but keep wounds secret
Respect my last right and please cover my chest!

The fire knows the taste of burning
The salt knows the taste of pinching
I know both as I got burning wounds
Oh clown! Don't shed too much tears
Never ever try to douse the flaming fire
As the fire will end my pain forever
The Water is waiting for me in the river
Strike the stick of the box, I can not wait
Let the wounds burn secretly of my chest
Oh buffoon! This is my last appeal please respect

poem by Abdul Wahab
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Burning Up

Would you believe me
If I said Id never lie
Though it aint easy
I can tell you I have tried
But I got to say
That it comes those days
That I told something untrue
Would you forgive me
If I said Id lied to you
This is my fear
To tell you what Ive done
As things come clear
Im afraid that youll be gone
But all I know
Is if you go
At least Ive told whats true
Hope youll forgive me
When I say Ive lied to you
Im burning up
Im burning for you
When the truth has been spoken
Theres nothing I can do
Yes Im burning up
Im burning for you
When the truth has been spoken
Theres nothing I can do
How will you kill me
For what Im about to tell
Please do it gently
cause you know Im bound for hell
All I know is
Ive lost my soul
Im burning inside
Hope youll forgive me
Yes I have lied
Oh yes Ive lied
Im burning up
Im burning for you
When the truth has been spoken
Theres nothing I can do
Yes Im burning up
Im burning for you
When the truth has been spoken
Theres nothing I can do
Now you know that Ive gone
And Ive been untrue to you
And once its told
Well you know theres nothing we can do
I regret that I let this get so out of hand
I pray, please stay, that youll understand
Im burning up
Im burning for you
When the truth has been spoken
Theres nothing I can do
Yes Im burning up
Im burning for you
When the truth has been spoken
Theres nothing I can do
Im burning up...
(repeat)

song performed by by Eagle Eye Cherry
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Hopelessly Lost A (January)

Feel the tingling in your heart deep with in
the pulse of the Spirit with in your body
the beating pulse of blood rushing
the deep stare to which your eyes gaze

Feel the burning of the passion
the crying of your soul for everything
the righteousness burning at a fury
the deep words which cut my heart for you

Feel that feeling that is so sweet
the tenderness that is everlasting
the passion in my soul for you so deep
burning burning burning just for you

the love between me and you so strong
hopelessly lost forevermore which i do not ignore

poem by Branden Aeling
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Burning Goodbye

In quietness of the air
Somewhere my soul immersed within
Flowing freely touching atmosphere
Flying over the sky, low to high
In silence, listen to the sound of wind
My whisper behind the rippling leaves
Tell you here i come, as the breeze
Through the branches of the tree
Touch you softly, forever i will be

Across the lands and meet the oceans
Running to you miles in a far distance
Presence of me exist without being seen
Trust me, as the wind touch on your skin
Cool from the ocean, warm from the sun
Touch of my fingers hold you in the breeze
To dry your tears, vapor your fears
Craving best smiles upon your face
For the best to glance many days

Inhale me in everytime you breathe
Feel sultry circulation all over your body
With my wishes to rise happy in glory
As I meditate within your thick flowing blood
Touring, before reach core inside your heart
The space, where the heartbeats keep secret
Tormented, sorrow and smile for this world
I am loyal to listen, understand beats in words
So bring me inside and feel me in your breath

Sealed by the silent dreams, unspoken pains
As when the silk of darkness cover your soul
Swimming back to you from the sky high
Wash your will to fly again with the spirit found above
Win your victory, frontier of the white doves

Breathe me in breathe me out
Breathe with me, together we travel the time
Burn the barrier clear the negative clots
Riding your blood to soothe the vessels
Wheel your dark drift away with me
Hush me now with all the reasons made you cry
Above the sky it will fade away in thousands miles
If the dark dissolve in daylight, to be dark night
For always, my prayer hands paint you spirit with light
Keep hopes glittering hanging in the air upside
Forever shine, my stars company you all nights
As for you, not alone to smile and fight

Wherever you are, I still in the air
As long as you breathe, forever i live in your breath,
Burning my goodbye without fire, gone without ashes
As to you i always return, back with same wishes
Grant me your smiles, something money cant buy

Together we will pass the time
Till one moment has come
When you leave and close the door
The day when you breathe no more

..................................... ................................................. .......

Internet connection stop me from post this yesterday..SOmething i cant control.

Perfect night in such windy one, finally my soul back in right place again
to write honestly what my heart to say...poetry of friendship for my next
rise from the ashes...This such a personal one i share, the honest feel i give
I done writing before but i threw original away It doesnt fit my soul, not on right place..
I was discovering spirit in candle, strength from rose, and now turn myself as the wind
...The air, Exist but unseen, and physiological intimately important..Choose one color in any tones
in my artcover to represent yourself, i will never discriminate any :) . This poem is how i
tell you my gratitute to many friends here, thanks for convincing me to stay In PH
and it mean a lot to wake me, to let me see back what the purpose i am here...I remember all now
I am here for people who need someone to listen, to loose the sorrow..Please to all my friend
feel free to share what in mind, we will fight the dark as big family...we born in
womb of unity, love and humanity...So i dedicate myself for each friend if you need
depend on you to believe or not..but i say it's true..At first many say, is that a goodbye
poem? ? ? NOT AT ALL..burning goodbye is to lost goodbye not to consume it :)

4th poem: Night whisperer (Dark Guardian) ...

poem by Unwritten Soul
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Why The Boy Inside Stays

I needed that boy
Inside of me.... Even today...
I'd ask him... long ago
Come visit and stay

I've oftened... needed his help
To heal those old wounds
That had cut... just so very deep
Even now they're on my mind
Probably forever to keep

And even though they damaged me
And left me with a ton of scars
I never let (that boy)
Wander far

The boy inside... reminds me...
Even though I'm a man
Whence I came... and whom I am

You ask...
Why...the boy remains with me-?
The beauty of snow...he can see
Even after the blissard... of those nights...
The boy.... can still start a snow ball fight

And another why...the boy has come to stay...
So that the man...with his children
In the snow could smile and play

So my friends...I say even if you are just like me
The man that has endless tears... and scars
And a damaged soul....
The boy can remind you...
Of who you are

And one last thing of why
The boy inside me must stay
A man with children...must teach
Forgive...learn...
Kneel...and...pray

The great beauty of his wife...and love
Those words...convey...
And that's also... why... this boy stays....

Clyde Grant Bryson

poem by Clyde Bryson
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A Man, And Something Within

a man cannot say about

what he sees, sometimes, he merely

gazes at it, and then

either he stays or leaves,

he touches the hand of the wind

and does not tell you

what he feels, his mouth is dry

and his hair follows where the wind goes

he keeps a lot of somethings inside,

one that makes

him feel a stone

nothing drips, nothing flowing

steady as a post

without light

during the night, without fear

he expels shame

and then he goes back

takes that.... something

and does not say

at all anything

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Hymn to Love

We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee,
As théou, Léove, were the déep thought
And we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we,
Thy fires of thought out-spoken:

But burn’d not through us thy imagining
Like fiérce méood in a séong céaught,
We were as clamour’d words a fool may fling,
Loose words, of meaning broken.

For what more like the brainless speech of a fool,—
The lives travelling dark fears,
And as a boy throws pebbles in a pool
Thrown down abysmal places?

Hazardous are the stars, yet is our birth
And our journeying time theirs;
As words of air, life makes of starry earth
Sweet soul-delighted faces;

As voices are we in the worldly wind;
The great wind of the world’s fate
Is turn’d, as air to a shapen sound, to mind
And marvellous desires.

But not in the world as voices storm-shatter’d,
Not borne down by the wind’s weight;
The rushing time rings with our splendid word
Like darkness fill’d with fires.

For Love doth use us for a sound of song,
And Love’s meaning our life wields,
Making our souls like syllables to throng
His tunes of exultation.

Down the blind speed of a fatal world we fly,
As rain blown along earth’s fields;
Yet are we god-desiring liturgy,
Sung joys of adoration;

Yea, made of chance and all a labouring strife,
We go charged with a strong flame;
For as a language Love hath seized on life
His burning heart to story.

Yea, Love, we are thine, the liturgy of thee,
Thy thought’s golden and glad name,
The mortal conscience of immortal glee,
Love’s zeal in Love’s own glory.

poem by Lascelles Abercrombie
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No Words

You want to give your love away
And end up giving nothing
Im not surprised, that your black eyes
Are gazing.
You say that love is everything
And what we need the most of
I wish you knew, thats just how true
My love was.
No words for my love
Youre burning love, sweet burning love
Its deep inside,
You mustnt hide, your burning love
Sweet burning love, your burning love.
You want to turn your head away
And someones thinking of you
I wish youd see, its only me,
I love you.
No words for my love

song performed by by Paul McCartney
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Nurses

They console those who feel deprived;
They comfort those about to die;
They give tender and loving care;
They relieve pain by their kind talk

They bandage wounds that bleed so much;
They start the drips that sustain life;
They give life-saving oxygen;
They care for sick by day and night.

They advise patients to be good;
They scold the ones who don’t keep rules;
They wish them ‘good morning’, ‘good night’,
They tuck them snugly when they sleep.

They feed those who can’t eat themselves;
They make them swallow bitter pills;
They tell them what cleanliness is;
They bid good-bye when discharged well.

They stay awake by their bed-side;
They call relatives when needed;
They say kind words that heal like drugs;
They empathize when things go wrong.

They show great love for suffering souls;
They serve the young and old when sick;
They respect human life on earth;
They are like angels right from birth.

The world depends on nurses much;
Nurses are health-providers too;
They are a boon and main pillars
Of global health care delivery.

O Florence Nightingale’s found souls;
Your work is more than weight in gold;
God bless your divine earthly roles
You’re always noble in this world.
God surely will reward you well.

Copyright by Dr John Celes 11-8-2008

poem by John Celes
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If I Gave You My Heart

If I gave you my heart
Where would you be
Would it mean nothing
If not for me
If I gave you my eyes
What would they see
Would they see nothing
If not for me
But I gave you my hand and my sign and my soul on the earth
And I gave up on truth when I heard about the words
I lived out of love when I gave it away
And I sold off my soul when theres no one to pay
If I gave you my hand
What would it write
Would it say nothing
Or say its alright
If I gave you my arms
Would they hold you tight
First blood (? ) in morning
Or bid you goodnight
And I gave you my strength and my worth and I gave you my gift
And I moved on the first and I left us to drift
And I reap from the soil and I build hopes from wood
Its a new better life and we have to ensure
And I gave you my dream of the world and you stole the key
You sang to the wind in the whole ? ? ? sea
And I feel my weight and I guard my soul
And I found my beliefs when I found my control
I gave you my hand and my soul on the earth
And I gave up on the truth when I heard about the words
So I lived out of love when I gave it away
And I sold off my soul when theres no one to pay
Another version
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If I gave you my heart where would you be,
Would it mean nothing if not for me?
If I gave you my eyes what would they see,
Would they see nothing if not for me?
But I gave you my hand and my sign,
And my soul on the earth,
And I gave up on truth,
When I heard about the worst
So I lived out of love
When I gave it away
And I sold off my soul
When there was no-one to pay
If I gave you my hand what would it write
Would it say nothing or say its alright
If I gave you my arms would they hold you tight
First light of morning or bid you goodnight
And I gave you my strength and my worth
And I gave you my gift
And I moved on the first
And I left us to drift
And Ill reap from the soil
And Ill build home from wood
Its a new better life
And we have 2 and should
And I gave you my dream of the world
And we stood on the quay
And we sang to the wind
And the whole darkening sea
And I feel my weight
And I guard my soul
And I found my beliefs
When I found my control
I gave you my hand
And my soul on the earth
And I gave up on truth
When I heard about the worst
So I lived out of love
When I gave it away
And I sold off my soul
When there was no-one to pay

song performed by by Ocean Colour Scene
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Keep On Burning

(ian hunter)
Oh
Well there aint no sense
In burning bridges.
No, there aint no sense
In burning bridges.
If were sorry
Then its our failure
So says the jailor,
Fade? away.
Now there aint no debts,
Just destinations.
Like birds made out of steel,
They fly by.
Lost lovers in a moonlit night,
Broken lovers in a starless night.
I lay my clothes down at your feet
cause all I want is for you
To keep on burning.
Keep on burning, babe,
Keep on burning.
Yeah, keep on burning (burning).
And when that flame dies
Becomes an ember,
Remember, keep on burning (keep on burning).
Can you feel my warmth
Inside of you, babe.
Oh can you feel my blood
Running through your vains.
Dont lay the blame on me, girl,
Just like lovers often will
I lay my heart down at your feet
Oh all I want is for you
To keep on burning,
Keep on burning (burning)
Keep on burning, babe (yeah),
Keep on burning (burning).
cause when that flame dies
Becomes an ember,
Remember, keep on (burning, keep on burning) burning.
Yeah, (you gotta) keep on burning (burning),
Ooh, keep on burning.
Keep on, keep on, keep burning, babe,
Ah (you gotta keep on burning, burning) keep on burning (burning),
Baby (yeah) you gotta keep on burning, burning.
Keep on burning,
Keep ...

song performed by by Ian Hunter
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The Ineffective Scarecrow

Perhaps he is sick of being a scarecrow
As I sometimes ache to be anything other than me
Now that I'm all dried up, like a squeezed orange
Like a swan on tenterhooks
Treading a path between broken dreams and ashes

The scarecrow wants to go back to being a stick
No more predators, loneliness, crows
With their constant cawing

He is sick of being a warning in the wind
He is sick of being one foot stuck in the dark

He dreams of being a spoke in St. Catherine's wheel
A moment of burning glory, then adieu
Of being a broom in Hitler's final bunker
Sweeping aside the bullets and swastikas

poem by Sheena Blackhall
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Ayyappa The Naughty God

Ayyappa they called a god
badly I know you
not a god
but they called a god

not to hear from you
but you write from the soul
madly we read it
they called a mad
know this is true

God made words he made soul of songs
song of love
He made us to read, he made you

God, madly made eveything
Without her wondrous words
madly we read a poem from you

They say God made you a naughty
And he gave a godlen hand
hand to write poems

Yes I know he’s mighty good and truthful to you
he drinks with you, stay in the night

There is no god, but madly he writes for us
And he knows everything to dream
So just you call on him God
And he will share his love with you
stay with you, drinks with you
and he quit the room
where we sit together
all the time....

(a poet of our Gods own land)

poem by Thampi KEE
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North Country

North Country, filled with gesturing wood,
With trees that fence, like archers' volleys,
The flanks of hidden valleys
Where nothing's left to hide

But verticals and perpendiculars,
Like rain gone wooden, fixed in falling,
Or fingers blindly feeling
For what nobody cares;

Or trunks of pewter, bangled by greedy death,
Stuck with black staghorns, quietly sucking,
And trees whose boughs go seeking,
And tress like broken teeth

With smoky antlers broken in the sky;
Or trunks that lie grotesquely rigid,
Like bodies blank and wretched
After a fool's battue,

As if they've secret ways of dying here
And secret places for their anguish
When boughs at last relinquish
Their clench of blowing air

But this gaunt country, filled with mills and saws,
With butter-works and railway-stations
And public institutions,
And scornful rumps of cows,

North Country, filled with gesturing wood–
Timber's the end it gives to branches,
Cut off in cubic inches,
Dripping red with blood.

poem by Kenneth Slessor
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Speak the Words

I had enough words to say that I was sorry
I had enough ways to make it go away
But foolish pride has ruined the path before me
I guess the sun can only shine here once a day

I drowned myself in a wave of lost ambition
I filled your world with my hate and disbelief
I trapped my soul in an awkward disposition
And deep inside I hope that no one sees me

Can you feel the pain I hide
I laugh out loud but cry inside
No one's there to save me from my doubt
Cause I don't dare to speak the words out loud

Try to find me in my sorrow
Time won't take away the truth
Can't change the way that we are changing
I hope that we will finally learn to

Can you feel the pain I hide
I laugh out loud but cry inside
No one's there to save me from my doubt
Cause I'm too scared to speak the words out loud

I walk the dessert all alone
No place to rest my mind
The sun is burning in my soul

song performed by by Green Lizard from Identity
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The Howler

There is blood
dripping, dripping
off snow white paws,
ice perfection,
caeser beauty.

You howl, dark, blood stained muzzle
piercing the air
the cold, cold broken air
that shatters soul and
thought and prose.

Your hackles raised your amber sockets
your fire-light eyes
dancing, grinning, lolling jaws
gasping
Lungs shattering-frozen glass.

You are a blizzard,
tearing across the
frozen tundra
confidence in essence,
you alone- the world your
enemy, your
arena, your solace.

You are cold, an ice sculpture-
somehow melting, but ever slow
you howl again,
for luck.

poem by Alice Miller
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Walk Through Fire

(howe/thomas)
I used to see those red tail lights, heading for another town
And wish that I was on my way
Looking back on these summer nights, wasting time, fooling round
And there was nothing here to make me stay
But that night I met you, the night you came through made me realise
Theres no way I can leave, you made me believe
And now when I look in your eyes
Chorus:
I could walk through fire, I can feel it burning
And I could walk through fire, (to get) right back to you
And as the flames get higher, you know Ill get stronger
Baby I could walk through fire
Its crazy how these things work out, I used to think I had no chance
And I somehow thought youd slip away
You pulled me through the fear and doubt, gave me all Im looking for
Everything I needed to stay
How could something so good, something so simple, get serious
How could someone so right come into my life, and now I just want you to
Know
Chorus:
I could walk through fire, I can feel it burning
And I could walk through fire, (to get) right back to you
And as the flames get higher, you know Ill get stronger
Baby I could walk through fire
And I would go anywhere, I would do anything, I do what you want me to
You know that I would, I want you to know this, whenever you need me
Ooh wherever you are, no matter how far, you know Ill be coming for you
Chorus:
I could walk through fire, I can feel it burning
And I could walk through fire, (to get) right back to you
And as the flames get higher, you know Ill get stronger
Baby I could walk through fire
Baby I could walk through fire, right back to you
And I could walk through fire, and I could walk through fire
And I could walk through fire, right back to you, yeah

song performed by by Bad Company
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Lets Stay Together Tonight

Lets stay together tonight (lyrics by manuel de la peña)
I feel your hand in mine, I touch your skin
Your heart is calling out
You want to let me in, to let me in
Your lips are silent now, were not alone
Id like to tell you how much
Id like to take you home
So I can make love to you
I believe in you so
And theres only one moment to live
When youre here next to me
Theres so much more I have to give
Chorus
When the wind blows
Theres nowhere as you can run to
Lets stay together tonight
Im waiting for you
All the words that I told you
Will always be true
Lets stay together tonight
Whatever we do
Why must I keep pretending
Im in control
When I can feel your senses
Burning through my soul
Through my soul
I believe in you so
And theres only one moment to live
When youre here next to me
Theres so much more I have to give
Chorus
Hold me close, dont let me go
I just want you to say that, I need you
I want you to know, know...
Chorus

song performed by by Air Supply
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History Of Ages Burns On Minds Eye

Soul cry hear blood soak earth
fires burning in ghost phantom dark
images burned into victim retina.

All sacred homes lost burning fires
raids plunder cruel famine wars
burning through rage pages history.

Screams across fury dark demon ages
slaves taken beat broken enchained
civilizations burning collapsing dying
waxing falling death conquest repetition.

Age of aspiring mind man
slave to stalking brutality
beats drumbeats inside skull
angels call chosen souls home.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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