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fractal007
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0 posted 2009-06-07 10:17 PM


This poem is based on the events that have transpired so far in a story I've been writing and posting in the prose forumns




Look down
     Kelvin looks down
  what do you see?
     It's all familiar
     words replacing noise
     sense cacophony.
     He's reading now
          I -- I see a man wandering in a desert.
          He's tired and hungry, thirsty and dying.

       Wu listens to Kelvin pronounce
       the words, his composition now
       coming to life, his travels
       laid bare without Kelvin's knowledge.

          He's lost and the sun never stays
          still, stumbling among distant dunes,
     his mind listless so long as he
     forgets the original purpose for
     which he came here, which was...
You forget
  how to read that word?
          No, it's not that.  I just
          wish I knew why I was here,
          why I had to go through all
          this with you despite knowing
          that it all went by in
          an instant.
       Wu is perplexed now
       You have a guiding spirit,
       just like the wanderer in
       the desert.  Who is he?

  Kelvin is terrified now.
  He's been thrust into this
  hell of monotony by a woman
  he met in the darkened room
  of his own mind.

                                  Lindsay
                 He is you and you are he
                 It's a secret road you
                 both tread, winding and
                 monotonous.



Life's short.  Think hard!
Me!

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