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#this poem can be found on a shard one the table next to Mitch on the bridge
pinkyjulien · 9 months
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Death of a mercenary ━ author unknown
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Quick enough - not I Nor bold enough nor agile Tangled up in wires Like a nest of vipers vile
Was it I who fell? Or was it done to me? Dissolving, disappearing, with you I wished to be
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Now tethered, clamoring, the restless swarm Beating in my ears a pale rage - No!
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Into the earth I seep, my life the sweet Thorn sticks in my throat
A chill burns brighter - On To the end? What a thought A huddled husk I tumble for the dawn
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The old certainty of youth is felled And from its gnarled trunk Memories fall forth
Hours of ours sharp and pressing race Embittered in a powerlocked embrace
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With you I wished to be and so I go! Down a road without end through woods half-dreamt
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And the chill-bleached delirium of desire Flies into trepid trembling sand
Through the fog of your shadow sharpening The storm tangles in me once again
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To sway with you like sweet grasses dry
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Still the glassy dust will naught but rise
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