How can it be?

How can it be
That mankind
Once master of
God’s beautiful creation
Has built of it
A cheap imitation
Of Dante’s Hell?

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They Shoot Horses

Fractured

Broken

Disfigured

Destroyed

Beyond healing

Eternal pain

So why not me

 

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Collapsing Crystal Castles

You approached me once
    Sparkling glowing heat that lit me afire
You loved me once
    I blazed multi-hued colors against lonesome darkness
You told me goodbye once
    While I danced among our collapsing crystal castles
You left me once
    I have yet to survive the shimmering slashes endured

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Silvery Moon

Silvery moon
Shimmering light
Weave for me a dream this night

Silvery moon
So bright above
Dream for me someone to love

Silvery moon
Bewitcher of time
A place in which she will be mine

Silvery moon
Of dreams fulfilled
Keep her here, til my heart is stilled

© Copyright 1992 Marty Vandermolen