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A Poetry tDrop
by Wetdryvac
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Review
May 2, 1992
I read a book today and it was sad
I did not know just what to say, or how to say it
the words they eat away at me
and make me feel strangely about magic I hardly see
and yes, this book was beautiful
a story both of pride and joy, and tragic loss
and that story I can ��t comprehend
it tears at me like comedy untrue
so what do I say about this now
I want to tell you just the way it made me feel
a book so sad and pure you know
its reality created certainty
and memories like yours it leaves behind my bars
and like smoke its pages burn away
and like the smoke you fade from me
so truly seen, so reviewed, history
and no, I know you have no way to know my story
a book and memories all I have to hold now
and like its pages you do turn
move away so I can ��t follow where you ��ve gotten to
yet like the story so very clear
your voice it weaves towards me in tonight
I grasp a hold, daytime television persecution
the will of will you be you again
will I ever have the nerve to just be me
like the story I try to become page
commit each act to memory, let next writ become trade
and where the world it goes to now
all like the magic book who ��s pages turn somehow
this book I thought with you I ��d share
words turned to you who ��s voice from nowhere rings
and like the page I become dust
blown away from me, as well before the breeze
you, like places I ��d marked
I think the story ��s wrong, happy endings missing
and the words I had to say melt into meaningless empty
world gone to dust as in the end we knew it went
and though never to tell you this
missed for lack of endings
and on the stealing breeze you toss
and in steel breeze all is lost, faded again
another story untold, heart consumed
I cannot turn away, your face and memories of moments lost
oh what a cost - a price to pay for self ��s security
when security was of nothing, stories never told
how strange at eighteen years never to believe again
old story with you here and gone
or so it seems to me �� but I still can ��t see
and on the stealing breeze I burn out my recollection
trapped in eidetic revolution, never free
and on the steel breeze I burn, no story to tell
no one to tell, world through with me for now
this story ��s done, so set the pale, my only friend
ah, I am magic come undone, so set my place
so set my place
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