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[title] => freefall
[time] => 2011-10-20 05:06:27
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[bodytext] => Voices whisper, promising sweet sleep I look, but see nothing in the deep Nothing different from where I am now The only change, it doesn’t bow To the joy that pulls me to the sky That leaves me giddy, too breathless to ask why Like someone has a gun to my head A false cheery voice, “be happy or you’re dead” No choice, though I’d much rather die They see the surface, believe the lie When the skeleton shows, they call it an act Blind to the broken bones, to the impact Like a star falling to the sea The end of all I’ll ever be The light that was so clear Will suddenly disappear If I don’t drown, I hit land The jagged rocks, not sand Able only to lie on red-stained stone A macabre painting, but it’s my own A sign that I had really been there That I wasn’t just someone’s nightmare Everlasting, till swept away by a flood A marker, a monument in blood Life, trapped in a sepulcher Now, a blessed departure Away from all the judging eyes In falling, I rise [comments] => 1 [counter] => 80 [topic] => 13 [informant] => ravenoktober [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => DarkPoetry )
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