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On and On and On (Free verse) by MacFrantic
Guests may never
Family might
Lovers will
And gods may kill
Wild dogs hunt foxes in the night
And I've never seen an angel
But I've seen spite
So hold me while I'm around
Speak that wonderful sound
And give every single chance
That you can afford
What's more
Remember the diers
Comfort the criers
Take the king's crown from the liars
Spit at everthing that you dare to
Because it's all fleeting
Where is myth
The antiquated and original?
Is nostalgia lost?
Has every path been crossed?
Only time will tell
Or hell
Or for that matter heaven
As some would call it
That place between fact and fiction
Show and tell
Not the tone of the bell
But the heart of the ringer
Defy me
And you'll be
Another performer
Too tired to give his last
While I gasp and outlive you
In the corners of the world
Alone with my thoughts
Laughing at your significance
And so goes the ride
On and on and on
Until the shade goes bronze
The aftermath of some personal oblivion
So I'm a disaster
A miserable hackneyed bore
And my mind's a whore
Hemorrhaging for strangers in the park
And throbbing in the dark
I'm a headache in the head
Of an infantile cupid
Whose arrows
Pierce the faintest soul
And ignore the tyrant
He who could use the impaling posts
Far more than most
The Earth spins soft hands
And will shape you
In her immortal lathe
But reject her embrace
Coil in her malicious affections
And she will see you ruined
Like I
Born a good one
Sending purpose and reason
To bathe in the vestiges
Of some arthouse hack
Remarked upon by the avant-garde
And dismissed as swiftly as the hours
Upon which days make lifetimes
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