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marcel
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since 2003-03-02
Posts 660
az, usa

0 posted 2007-08-07 11:53 AM


Truths or Consequences

Bright windowless roads
Guide troublesome souls
Blinded by self pity
Around winding hills
As goals and future hopes
Suddenly descend downward like a roller coaster
Passing exit after exit
As destination marker reads---
“Truth or Consequence, 5 miles”
Shadows shade thoughts
While mirages change landscapes
Happiness and peace splash the skies for a moment
Until the road ascends upward
Passing past lovers and sins
Leveling out gradually
Eye to eye with the setting sun
“Truth or Consequence, 2 miles”
Redemption stretches lonely
Along the deserts of memories
Lines of the highway vanishing
Blackness against the coming darkness
“Truth or Consequence, 1 mile”
Headlights turned on
Rain storms the horizon
Lightening fury escapes the skies unchained
Drenching desolate flowers
With the knowledge no one seeks
City limits approaching
Truths
Consequences
Nearing
City limits
Solitude
Emptiness
Tears will no longer feed forgiveness
No stopping now!
Headlights turned off
Continuation along the path
Next marker reads---
“Salvation, endless miles”
Rains cease
The sun rises
Consequences become truth
And truths will one day cease to have consequences.

Marcel


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ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353
Michigan, USA
1 posted 2007-08-07 12:00 PM


Oh, I liked the ride...you cleverly wove the horizon with the point of reckoning.
Wonderful read.

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