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by Wetdryvac
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Singing To The Night
May 24, 1992
if you pull me from the wreckage of my life
see that I am bleeding badly
I cannot tell you all that you must do
perhaps as you look on there will be no must
nor common sense from the word
or perhaps the must will come from you
so be it
as I continue on I see and feel the coming fallout
it is building, I know, I am absorbed in it
it may seem strange that it does not affect my distance
but distance is defense you know
I recognize the coming darkness like a childhood captor
though I care little or nothing for it, it is coming
no choice I make can avert the downfall
only the external can provide new function
I make no more pleas, at least for the while
I am too tired to dream at the world these past few days
all I hear are my breathing echoes from the walls
I am perhaps waiting for help, for constancy
but should help not come, still I am waiting �� only waiting
and if you see the wreckage piling up
a chaos at the end of a short, little fought race
you may wish to compose the pieces
sift them softly through our fingers
I give you this as you hold parts of me ��
I was, am, growing into nothing
what I am is too tiring �� I don ��t like this being any more
I give you �� or anyone �� choices
you can do what you will
either help, or turn, or hinder
the icy waters engulf my will
and if you pick up the pieces, I don ��t know
may be at last a friend to comfort
or if the pieces fall too hard my almost friend
lay me down a blanket, soft to lay me on
and cover my face when the pieces land
they say the drowned die warm
but I know
it is never to loose or gain ��
but simply to be
a lone entity is nothing and though I am me to me
I am still getting down
friend
I cannot comfort you
I can ��t even lift the broken burden of self
I never give up thought
but the night is fallen, sleep grows heavy
and a blanket to keep me warm now all I need
this could easily be absolution, I cannot tell
but from the inside it all feels the same
it simply drives me weary, unable to care
soul of reversal enervation ��
you say it ��s all inside my head
you speak true
and my friend, if I am failing, perhaps you can lend a hand
or perhaps I am just singing at the night
but the time of choice is at hand �� choosing not to choose
endgame �� and my friend, if you find me dying, shattered through
lay me a blanket of company �� I am so alone
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