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The great revealer,
Touching both on truth and lie,
Tearing both away.
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Slow withering pain,
Masking, hiding joy and rage,
taking life away.
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Death to those who cannot see.
Life is not a fearful dream.
Theirs is chaos,
Theirs catastrophe.
The truths of life they cannot see.
They are t..
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One pure white candle,
wavering in the darkness,
beautiful and rare.
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At first hidden,
Timid and mysterious.
Searching for unknown origins,
Ignored and denied.
Eventually welcomed,
awkward and unsure.
Hoping for ..
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The Quest of Pain
It is like a swelling weight.
Crushing from all sides
Insides crumpling like an empty can
Every churning bit of filth bubbli..
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The River
It begins as rain,
A storm of ill tidings comes from thin air.
Ominous thunder, echoes, continuously.
A perennial typhoon, remembe..
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This poem is based on an account of a battle in a journal of an English soldier part of an occupational force in Scotland.
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Where Am I
A seagull calls,
Alone in the sky.
Circling above me.
A lonesome calling.
Where am I?
I feel no sand,
I hear no waves,
I smel..
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Chaos of a Fireplace
Fire higher
Flight and falling
Stairs calling upward,
through smoke and fog.
Crumbling
Sliding
Dying
Crying out in ..
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