Naked branches stretch
into the night sky, longing,
"Please, give us your light,
give us your eternity,
grant your sanctity,
show us how to glide 'cross sky."
The sky is too cold.
It does not share its grandeur,
and instead freezes the tree.

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An echo drifts past,
playing tricks upon the ear,
like faded music
carried on a dying wind
to abandoned wastes
where not a soul dares venture.
Could it be laughter?
No, perhaps it is weeping...
Its meaning is lost
in other woes and worries,
forgotten by those
who walk a diverging path.
Distant, ghostly, voice -
to whom did it once belong?
Now a crumbled shape,
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A dog is just a dog.
A goat is just a goat.
A horse is just a horse.
A unicorn is just a unicorn.
A dragon is still just a dragon.

They're all beasts, though some more than others.
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A man...
hair the color of iron...
eyes, like liquid copper.
sits he in a cloak of grief,
beneath a blanket of solemn clarity...
To live? To cease?
--A question to which only he knows the answer,
and yet he knows it not.

A network of lies someday falls apart, like spider webs before the rains...

Long fingers tickle
the dusty old ivories,
and paint worlds in song.

Why bother? Such a puzzling inquiry...

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