![]() Hardly ForeverA Poem by Nickjohnson![]() Just something I wrote about the changes i've made about my choice in friends and my general direction in life since High School.![]() If I have become so disingenuous that not Even a mirror could distinguish who I am then Please cease my breathing so the reflections are no longer clouded. I doubt your nerve, and whether I really Know myself well enough to make judgments on others. Dare I? Dare I make this choice. Should I break the mirrors, protruding from every wall I’ve built and shatter then? Ground to dust, these last few shards We shall fall together, these last few walls, Like lavish debutantes turned to nothing by the stars above. Nothing barring my on look now, this Marsh is drenched with ball room gowns Draped from spires of black. It is not my nature to romanticize such things. It is in this ambiguity that I find comfort Nestling my head in the arms of cassius. Should I follow this dark path Or gather the courage to wait for morn. I must keep moving, I decided so very long ago To keep distance from the lies once wrought. But is there and end, a gleaming end To the passage now forgot? It seems my plans for escaping what I’ve done have been Discarded in favor of traveling without thought. Along the way, I met 3 women, draped in black, settling In with eerie glares. They gave me the words, of future and past, Carried away on whistling wind. I am no king however, merely a man Destined to change. How prophetic is that for a man who knows nothing else? It is best, I change my fate, for I may become uncomfortable with The idea of my future on the lips of a stranger. It is best I drop my head, for the masked man is near, I have called him, once more, finally my future is clear, I have cleared the lies I once wrought, Not a soul remains that can have cause To think of me at all. I traded them for the chance of riches, But I never received by sack of silver. End it quick, I whispered staring at gravels, embedded below. Is this how my world ends for me? With a whimper and not a scream?
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