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Chalmette Guy
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since 2009-03-11
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0 posted 2009-08-10 08:31 AM


The stairs that I commenced to take
Seem to go forever on
But who knew forever was this long?
As I feel my heart break
I give in to gentle conformity
To escape jezebel kisses
Full of their hits and misses
I am bedeviled in my own parity
But the open spaces converge
Upon so many tattered remnants
Of direction-less tenants
Whose too many thoughts tend to surge
Betray me not, I ask of faltering foresight
Leading me a further distance
Climbing with surer insistence
Into deeper depths of a blinding height

The stairs that I thought I climbed
Lead to open doors before me
Which close behind in finality
Spiraling down through a darkened mind

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miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060
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1 posted 2009-08-10 08:44 AM


Totally amazing word choice and imagery!

"Betray me not, I ask of faltering foresight
Leading me a further distance
Climbing with surer insistence
Into deeper depths of a blinding height"

The key being:  to "continually climb"

Nice!

         ~miscellanea

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