Eric Paeplow

Sitting here, upon my chair,
Pondering the things, that ponderers do
Should I raise this issue?
Should I approach the Politicians of State?
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Their lost voices drift on the wind,
I have fallen, please carry me home
Like shadows drifting between the leaves
From sunsets past, to now fading dreams
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The dance of souls,
The dance of fate
Each dancing alone,
Each one,
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On sullen ground, bleak and cold
My sentence, forever, with an eternity left to go
Having fallen from the sky, so high
Now earthbound, alone and unable to fly
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Days and nights of untold dreams
Cast in shadows, to those that seem
To live and love and pass the days
Each in their own, separate ways
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Born and raised a proper,
Tux and tails with a stiff white collar
Standing proud, tall and thin,
But it seems like, life just bugged him
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Hope is stronger than hate
Faith, stronger than fate
Day turns to night
Night brings on your darkest fears
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The war is on, it's time to fight
Loose the cannons, the politician's scream
Unleash the beast; let the gathering hoards surge forth
With a burning need for glory and a lust for blood and pain
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Once I strode a silent dell
Where man nor beast, would dare not dwell
For man had gone unto wars
While trusting fate, to lucky stars
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Alone with their sorrows,
alone with their pain
Sitting there,
in the same place,
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In quiet repose, we lay alone in our lair
Lit by naught, but a lone candles flair
Where sane creatures slept, or at least tried
We lay entwined, enrapt in each other's eyes
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A light wind swept over me
and all of nature smiled in the sunshine
While the earth laughed in flowers
and showed her beauty in the autumn's sunset sky
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Once praised, then scorned, once worshiped, now forlorn
The Gods of the earth lay dormant, waiting to be reborn
Feared, praised, all powerful, then all at once, cast aside
Resting through the ages, forgotten, erased from our minds.
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Here I sit, staring blankly at the horizon, blind to the view before me
My mind in a different place, a different plain all together
My soul torn open wide, bare to the world around
This foreign place, this other world, this dream of hope and sorrow
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A first glimpse, a first yearning begins the fire that will last a lifetime
A first kiss, a first night, as you slip to dream in each others arms
The first dawn, the waking of one sprit, instead of two
These are the days of wonder, these are the days of joy
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There I stood, the edge of the endless abyss before me
For what seemed an eternity I stood, searching....waiting for the answer
Peering into the darkness, motionless, timeless, silently I stood
Wanting to know, yet fearing the answer, waiting to be enlightened
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On a obsidian throne, reigns the night, bane and suffering dwell each side
The unholy trio, tormenting timid souls on their journey throughout time
By a lonely path, they strode, unaffected by these cruel demons dreams
Shrouded forms, they appear to the souls in agony, their woes, legion
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I don't want to talk about it; do we have to bring it up again?
You never seem to look ahead, but rather, behind instead.
Your sights, not on the future, but instead, on past history
It's all in days gone by, why can't you ever, let sleeping dogs lie.
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The introductions made,
the gathering now ensconced in their velvet chairs, so began the night
From first we met,
the maiden lent not the slightest obeisance,
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Here I lie, in my bed so warm
Resting in my blissful place
In my dreaming state
Until the light of my eternity shines
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