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In …the
Empty Space,
Between Us
Since you left me ...here
all, lost and alone
in outer space
where i am a king, without a throne
Destined it seems to wander aimlessly
looking for traces of what existed, before
The war came and took it all away
Evil minds
And well intentioned fools
Have imprisoned us
Shattered our confidence
In the loving truth
That we are here together
To love and care for
One another
After
taking what seems
a fatal dose
of a potent potion
of poisonous
hate, in confusion
now, all that is felt
is sadness
and
disillusioned fallacies
we’re left believing normal is to live beyond our means
to only hasten our fall into the whirlpool
as fools
unwary, when destruction
once again raises its ugly head
seems
we’ve been
abandoned, once again
with neither hope
or sense of happiness
with which to carry on
just like refugees
lost is the familiar loving sense of closeness
of family, sharing, caring
in a touch, a taste, a scent
a warmth embrace
the closeness shared
distractions
gathering, building in waves
with false pretences
overflowing, into what had once been
our sacred trust, our private spaces
we had once wisely chose our leaders
has the well run dry
chaos rises
darkens the horizons
while the true reason for
spiritual unity
has been supplanted
by ignorance and confusion
rather than profit and solutions
all has gone awry,
they turn out to be
just another reason to fight
only adding to the tide of pain and misery
why have they all gone astray
what remains
is only one half of a dream
without a coin to cast into a wishing well
only buying safe passage to
a private room in hell
shared with others we may not know
…caught up in the vacuum
Falling to a place that’s so far below
Where we may not recognize
It is our own suffering, we face
In each other’s spaces
where
We continue to make the same mistakes
here too, where
there’s not enough of anything to go around
but for a few fish and seven loaves of bread
to share a hope, to help us cope
our talents
could make us all rich
but do we dare
still, afraid
does anyone care
we are to the point of no return
where, we cannot afford enemies
we must find a place where
there
is common ground
or i fear we will not survive
as a loving human family
Is all too much to do…
I ask of you, to realize
Just
What it is that you perceive
That you are trying to save
will you take it to your grave…
Praying
The creator grants us
Truth
In wisdom
So that we can see through
each other’s true needs
and not continue to be merely trapped
In our illusions
Looking far beyond our thinking
Directly to the truth
In our beliefs
i
am now
a ...derelict,
with all
momentum lost
careening, through my mind
of history of humanity
bending the times
remembering
when, in our past we danced open and free
saw each other
as equals
openly
prepared to deal
with each other trading honestly
passing parades of memories
remembering, again
...what love used to be
knowing not
what took it all
away from
across
the frozen wastelands
where many useless
corpses lie
long since rotted away
forgotten
cold and lifeless
what little remains
as they fell
in wave after wave
stretched
over abysmal plains
broken hearted
visions
fade to black
disappearing
ghosts within a dream
now
becomes
a fatalistic fantasy
as
gently
i drift away
lost to the sphere
of your last influence
where
all that remains
is
half a world
all
i had once
retained
has left me now
curtains of doom
clouded memories
in shrouds of suffering,
pain
and gloom
emptiness is where,
now
my heart exists
in
nether
space time
it
seems
i cannot resist
flying off the world to save
a dream of better days
or is it just me alone
trying to reach for straws
can't even keep myself
…from crying,
are you with me
willing to give it just
a little hope
and more
for just one more dance
even though,
sometimes
i think you're lying
when you say you care not
anymore
what has become of me
when it takes a challenge to believe
unwilling to allow
another fall
to miss the chance
to be made whole
a chance
we no longer can afford
not to take, for what i'd
give my all to avoid losing the war
of all eternity
on this battlefield we fight
we fight, to gain the upper hand
to tip the scales, to free our lands
to understand
we no longer can afford
to lose
to let any more losses
open the gates of hell, to seal our doom
we must do
what must be done to
to absorb the cost
not to
to exchange another soul
not even one
more
lost to the dark side
i am
now with you
i read, i bleed
i follow your lead
into battle each time
win or lose, you choose
having faith, keeping time
precious moments
we live
again
in
a lifeline
forming a circle of friends,
extending, in a way
…that never
ends
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