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Beyond Today
“Beyond Today”
With the clouds that move beyond today,
the banks of a distant shore move farther and farther away,
and as the clouds fade out of sight,
the only thing remaining is eternal night.
Just as I watched as my life died,
I watched the clouds fade out of mind,
and what once was will never be,
for Hell has come to torture me.
Don’t think of what might have been;
it’s bad enough I’ve lost a friend.
Looking into the darkness of the abyss,
I find I preferred the char-black labyrinth.
The sky is getting grayer as I speak,
and I myself am growing weak;
there is so much left to tell you, to say,
but it must wait for another day.
How long can I be expected to hold on,
when everyone else has let go, abandoned the song?
While everyone else has gone to sleep,
I still stay awake to meet
the monsters coming out to play,
rising out of murky waters in the bay,
and I’m the one to entertain,
the one who already is insane.
The first one who would volunteer to give up
lost her touch; now time is stuck,
wavering on the same disastrous minute,
and all I long for is the finish.
There is nothing quiet about back here,
where I am trying to escape the mirror
shouting a million, million things for me to do
and say some stuff I don’t mean, too.
This hallway stretches onward and the end is not in sight;
I need to find some other way to make it through the night.
While lifelines flicker, and the storm comes nearer, all I can do is pray,
and wait for the time…maybe someday…when the clouds go beyond today.
Just looking for some criticism on this one, please. Anything welcome.
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