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[sid] => 176373
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Empyrean vault
[time] => 2013-06-24 21:29:30
[hometext] => For my aunt. I miss her already.
[bodytext] => Standing above a canyon A full belly of echoing battle cries Oh, but I'll walk the edge like death’s best companion No blighting dread, but a consuming abandon Oh, no, this canyon won’t eat me alive. There’s a song on the ravine walls Resounding and sinking right down to my bones It rings out from the chasms and calls From the mouths of birds: “Oh, see me be free, Skimming cloud towers of heights unknown.” Oh, no, I won’t fall like so many stones I won’t be lost along the river curves I’ll let the sky swallow me whole, From pounding feet and pulsing nerves Into an empyrean vault all my own Oh, I’ll leave this edge behind Still singing this song of mine [comments] => 2 [counter] => 138 [topic] => 52 [informant] => astronoe [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => goodbyepoetry )
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