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the northern lights are bright tonight
a sweet ballet of ghosts
breathing in the ashes of
that bitter, sour sky
a world with no fairies
or gods or rising smoke
a world with no cocoa
or stars or moonlit eyes
a hundred sheets of paper
a thousand drops of ink
inside the ancient stories
that tell us how to think
a child who's afraid
of getting old and grey
as they watch their own flesh
start to slowly rot away
as they swim through the sea
of black stones and white dust
tinfoil, shaky hands
and phone lines to foreign lands
but who can really blame you
when the only loving blanket
that can get you through the winter
is just a reach away
as you travel down the stream
towards the ever-setting sun
you know there's nothing left
and there's nowhere left to run
december 16, 2021