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The house of the rising sun

 

Let’s away to the blue mountains,
To the elegaic music of loss,
the sun above us burns the mists away
as we walk to the valley of youth..  
Today, I will walk the blue moutains of forgetting,
just a ragged wall above the far-horizons of sight,
they’re no closer after five days of tramping;
for five days I continued whilst knowing futility
in every pore, I just  kept going and going.
When, at last, the sun turns red behind me
or if I stop for food or drink or to take a piss
my shadow casts a shadow onto the far-horizon
the fire I  lit in the darkness will die to ashes
before I tune into the stars, dream of time’s denial
In a black hole of my own making,.
my legs shake and I begin forgetting amidst the tiredness of it all
but I choose not to fall upon my face
so I summon up the grace to  sing 
of the blue mountains – the mountains near the moon – 
where the sun rises from a sea of green ​​grasses to mark
the start of just another holy day..

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◄ Trilobite

11th November 1918 ►

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