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| There Ain't No Justice |
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Poetry Interlude 06
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- by the AC908 Poetry Society -
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Hiding in the Corner
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-by Natalie Pinero
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I'm sitting here in the corner hiding,
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Hiding from the future because it's scary,
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I can't wait for it to come,
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But I don't want it to get me.
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Who knows what it might have in store for me?
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I know it's out there waiting for me
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in the shadows
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I think it wants my youth and optimism,
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Only to replace it with heartache and wrinkles.
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I know the future is inevitable and it
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will bring great sweeping changes.
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But I'm not ready yet, and I'd like
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to stay in the present for a while.
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So I'm sitting here, in the corner,
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Hiding.
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Epic
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-by Ironhorse
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Here is a tale,
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of my deadly life,
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of horrific nature,
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and terminal strife.
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Bid by the king
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to search a new land,
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I joined some men,
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an adventuring band.
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We ventured to coasts,
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of bays of green,
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battling enemies,
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and creatures we'd seen.
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"Do not harm the Beholder!"
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One brave sole had screamed.
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Plucked out the creature's eye,
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with a sword I reamed.
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Then the land grew dark,
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death grew 'round.
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The cause was my actions,
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and the results will astound.
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I set off the land,
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tried to run away,
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yet a terrible storm we encountered,
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that dreadful dooms day.
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We lost a few men,
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we lost many to most,
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soon I sailed on alone,
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a lonely host.
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A vision came to bear,
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on the rocks to the port,
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a vision so beautiful,
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I stopped the boat short.
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Of flaxen hair at the top,
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to her mid-section just so,
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no clothes, just scales,
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from her waist to her toe.
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Blood ran from her face,
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and stained all the rocks.
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Her once flaxen hair
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bled red through the locks.
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The boat I had anchored,
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despite the violent storm,
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I fled to her aid,
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that late summer morn.
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I cradled her
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as her life slipped away,
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then her mouth fell open,
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as if something to say.
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"The Darkgate is open,
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the evil is loose,
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only you can save us,
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oh mighty Zeus."
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The words I had heard
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came not from her jaw,
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but from all around,
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yet no one I saw.
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"Who bids me a god?"
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I asked. "You're sorrowfully wrong,
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'tis back in my home,
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where I do belong."
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"You opened the gate,
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you where the one,
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if you now retreat,
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the darkness has won."
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"But I am no god,"
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I had to say.
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"Couldn't you stop it
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some other way?"
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The voice was no more.
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Did my question offend?
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In my lone mind I thought
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this was the end.
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A seaman I'm not,
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by trade or by gene,
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my crew hired on,
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for the riches they'd seen.
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This quest was not mine,
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Nor did I want,
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as I looked to the ship,
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the sails then grew taut.
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The boat 'gan to move,
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the anchor gave way,
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yet a moment I wait,
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the dead mermaid had say:
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"Trust in yourself,
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trust in your goal,
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to your pilotless craft,
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I offer my soul."
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And her body fell flat,
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as an empty sack,
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I jumped to the boat,
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I dared not look back.
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The ship sailed on,
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of direction it's own,
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in minutes I knew
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I was not bound for home.
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As the sun fell down,
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and darkness set in,
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I saw another,
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a ship in the wind.
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No water it's base,
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nothing to compare,
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'twas a beautiful golden ship,
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floating on air.
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It rode through the sky,
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as if some great bird,
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'twas many a moment
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before it's passenger I heard.
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"Are you the rider
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of the seawoman's ship?"
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He knew of my answer.
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He knew of my trip.
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"I too was selected
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by the voice of the sky;
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an odd trade-off,
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my ship can fly."
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"Indeed, I agree,
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your flight I can see,
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my ship is sentient
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of the ways of the sea."
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"Our forces will join,
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we'll battle together,
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though not just yet,
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we wait another."
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"How, I ask, did you know of me?
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And how, is my question, did your boat leave the sea?"
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"Floating a river
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an eagle saw I,
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Went to his aid,
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and heard from the sky."
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"And so the bird
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is now one with your ship, I see,
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just as the seawoman
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is one with me."
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"You are quick, and wise,
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just as the voice had said -
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'a leader of people,
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on a ship of the dead.'"
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Before I could question
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more of the voice,
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our parlay was broken
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with a thunderous noise.
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From the water had risen
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a ship of black,
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both I and the eagle
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were taken aback.
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"The last of our party,
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as you may so wish,
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the warrior woman,
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on the boat of the fish."
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"You are our leader?"
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The new woman asked,
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a finely built compliment
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to her sex and her class.
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"The command I take,
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though with some dismay,
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hurry, together,
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let's get under way."
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So onward we sailed,
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an odd stack of three,
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one above, one below,
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one on top of the sea.
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Our destination unknown,
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despite all the information that passed,
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we knew of each other,
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we knew of our cast.
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The flier was,
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by nature,
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a cleric,
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a man of religion,
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from the land of the Wherewik.
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His skills were defined,
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in healing and grace.
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Though, for protection
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he carried a mace.
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The swimmer a fighter,
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as the flier implied,
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a fierce combatant,
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with two swords at her side.
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And I was a lowly
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man of the magic.
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Often my spells
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were less then tragic.
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Hours later the flier was the first to call,
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being on top,
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he was the first that saw,
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Ahead was a hole,
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a sheer pit in the sea,
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I called forth to stop,
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and we stopped, all three.
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"It is the Darkgate,"
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the flier had cried
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as the two boats
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came to be by my side.
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"This is the battle,
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and it's right to the end,
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life as we know it,
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on us three depends."
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Forward we went,
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on into mystery,
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a battle for good,
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a battle for history.
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Inside the gate,
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no light could be seen,
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except for the cleric's
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radiant holy gleam.
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Outside the light
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the evil had cowered,
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fearing the cleric's
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newly found power.
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The warrior got testy,
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and ran to the field,
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a demon devoured her leg,
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and fast stole her shield.
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Bravely she fought on,
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as we tried to reach her,
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blood running down
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her every feature.
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With a mighty swing
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she took two demons surprise,
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beheaded in one blow,
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before our own eyes.
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The flier screamed in terror,
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I in disgust,
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as the remaining demons devoured the warrior
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in blood-thirsty lust.
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Before we could control
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the emotions we'd shown,
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ahead in the gate roared a horrific groan.
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The cleric fell down,
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his robe all red,
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if not for his faith,
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he would had been dead.
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His organ of life
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had up and exploded,
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tore through his chest,
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his clothes had eroded.
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The evil was too great,
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for the cleric to stand,
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as death came his way,
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he held out his hand.
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He offered to me a golden charm,
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expected to save him from evil's harm.
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I took it in honor,
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of a dying man's will,
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and I felt in my heart,
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I would be the next evil kill.
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The medallion I took,
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and mounted it then,
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I fastened it here,
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to my staff at the end.
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And as I had finished,
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the evil arrived,
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so grotesque a sight,
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my eyes had cried.
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Yet I stood fast,
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awaiting time to command,
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a demon rose from the side
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and tore 'way my right hand.
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In the seconds before death,
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I held my staff up high
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and called out the command words
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as I prepared to die.
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The great evil took no notice
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and swallowed me whole,
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I fell into it's stomach,
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as black as coal.
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As I fell in I was burned alive,
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stomach acid eating all my outside,
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and when I was finally ready to die,
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I laid my head down and shut mine eye.
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Next I knew,
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I was awake in my homeland,
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though everything grew small
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as I began to stand.
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I caught my reflection
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in the pool by my ho'e,
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I had taken the body
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of my hideous foe.
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And being alive,
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to serve an evil way,
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caused me much panic,
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had nothing to say,
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And so my last action,
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after relating this rhyme,
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is to end my life,
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self-judge my crime.
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So the world may live on,
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with this evil gone,
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and as I die,
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I hear the seawoman's song.
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"Blessed are you now,
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as you took your own life,
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perchance here in Heaven,
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may I be your wife?"
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These last few poems are all the work of Lupus Yonderboy
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i'm falling into the music
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it's tough to get back out
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that's a nice shade of red
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i'm lost inside your mind
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you look so good to me
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so good to me
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i think i understand it now
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why we do things
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crazy things
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it makes us feel good
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you look so good to me
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so good to me
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that's a nice part of you
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the part that enjoys what you really are
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the part that accepts
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the part that i love
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you look so good to me
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so good to me
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i don't mind it
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just looking
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at her
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every day
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it gets me through
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just looking
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but please don't take her away
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it is possible for a most ugly flask
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to contain the sweetest of nectars
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and the most beautiful of flowers
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may even repell the bee
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but is it not true that she of such beautiful flesh
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have an equaly as sweet mind
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you may feel the heat
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of that fire without flame
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you want so much to meet
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and you know not her name
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the stuff that is in me
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what is at the core of my me-ness
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cannot be described in words
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or i have yet to find the means
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can only be expressed in it's truest
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richest
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most 'real' form
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it is that very same stuff that wanders through infant minds
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before words were introduced to further complicate things
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short
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quick
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thought spurts in patterns
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patterns of light
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and sound
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and energy
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if only i could express myself
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fully
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and completely
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i'll find a way
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let me experience your mind
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to be you for a moment
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to know your realness
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to be one
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just for an instant
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i want to know what really drives you
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i want to know what really turns you on
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i want to crawl inside you
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roam within the boundlessness of you
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to learn
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more than that
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i want to share me
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