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Twin spirits meet ...standing before the icy gates
Ghostly images ...like soldiers walking through mists
Hovering indeterminately between life and death no more
Look past their broken bodies ...frozen in disbelief
No longer concerned about ...the why/the pain/the cost
Life had crash landed ...shot down to the ground
Battle of life lost ...but the enemy died too
Having freshly leapt from the corpse...
The spirits high-five ...like brothers do
they went down the way they lived
In a hail of bullets ...till each of them fell dead
Kept firing until each of their bodies had their fill of lead
Echoes of shots still ringing in their heads
Called it in street lingo ...old school
Replay their lives through intention
Since there is nowhere
...left to run...
Stuck in the loop
...beyond intervention
Some seeking vengeance
...scream defiance
Unwilling to concede the inevitable
Others seeking solace ...pray
Hoping to make loose ends ...meet
The rest still caught up in the day
Retrace ...every moment
along the way
Questioning ...each one
Except their last
...when life and death collided
When the curtain closes
Rise back through space
To meet the sun
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