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Array ( [sid] => 161017 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Moonless [time] => 2010-07-08 02:04:38 [hometext] => Sometimes, you can smell the night beckoning to you. [bodytext] => My city is Moonless.

I ask very little;
But my shadow is split
Across countless city lights
And back home,
She would drown them all out.

Skyscrapers and waterfronts
And bridges to nowhere
Can only take you so far
When you wake up at midnight,
Because hers is the
Higher calling, drawing eyes
Like dreams, like oceans
Across the horizon.

And the heart, threatening
To burst out within you,
Is an ache that drives people
Skyward, for her pull
Is undeniable
And unattainable, yet we reach out
For her, seeking salvation,
Until it is too much to bear:

When the world is beautiful, it is
Beautifully happy,
And beautifully tragic, and for some reason
I stopped being okay with that
A long time ago.

So I make the world
Reasonable, and things are reasonably
Happy, and reasonably tragic,
And the roses stop
Screaming my name.

And now,

I am Moonless.

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Moonless

Contributed by EternitysLyre on Thursday, 8th July 2010 @ 02:04:38 AM in AEST
Topic: DreamsandWishes

My city is Moonless.

I ask very little;
But my shadow is split
Across countless city lights
And back home,
She would drown them all out.

Skyscrapers and waterfronts
And bridges to nowhere
Can only take you so far
When you wake up at midnight,
Because hers is the
Higher calling, drawing eyes
Like dreams, like oceans
Across the horizon.

And the heart, threatening
To burst out within you,
Is an ache that drives people
Skyward, for her pull
Is undeniable
And unattainable, yet we reach out
For her, seeking salvation,
Until it is too much to bear:

When the world is beautiful, it is
Beautifully happy,
And beautifully tragic, and for some reason
I stopped being okay with that
A long time ago.

So I make the world
Reasonable, and things are reasonably
Happy, and reasonably tragic,
And the roses stop
Screaming my name.

And now,

I am Moonless.

Copyright © EternitysLyre ... [ 2010-07-08 02:04:38]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Moonless (User Rating: 1 )
by cashfan1 on Thursday, 8th July 2010 @ 03:25:10 AM AEST
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This is wonderful, your words condure up
vivid images, well writen, thanks for posting.

Re: Moonless (User Rating: 1 )
by thebadguy9999 on Thursday, 8th July 2010 @ 07:39:58 AM AEST
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nice

Re: Moonless (User Rating: 1 )
by spud on Thursday, 8th July 2010 @ 12:32:05 PM AEST
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Hi,

Exquisitely intelligent piece that captures the
shadows of sombre self-examinations.

Tommy

Re: Moonless (User Rating: 1 )
by Harsh on Thursday, 8th July 2010 @ 09:30:24 PM AEST
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very visualizing

keep rhyming

ciao

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