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To face the numbers,their terrible force,to continue this venture--is to agree to be, assume to be, strive to be legendary.
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Creaksoverhead.This house is farfrom empty.
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Grotesque image,I dare not call my own,reflecting.It's eyes shift.It stepsforward.
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...as silence thickens,my attention is sweptaway from it's breathto a mirror.Is that a mirror?
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Listen to breathing,steady or rapid?Is it increasingit's tempo?Or is there silence?
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...raise my shieldjust a bit,just in case,then wait and listen.
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around the cornerit comes lurking,peeringAround the cornerto test the air.
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I can feel it
moving,
slowly, eagerly
moving.
I can feel it
creeping,
ever so eerily
creeping.
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Then the breeze blew in a little bit.The dust was moved a little bit.The dust settled,displaced... a little bit.
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,and in the stillness
gravity lingers;
the air is heavy
with patience.
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