Gabriel SimpsonLaw

Only dogs are out on the streets
See there’s no-one else here but me
All the bars are closed, so I’ll follow my nose
To the hotel I’m still calling home
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Foresworn am I to ever view your love once swift declared to me
For false - it was and so shall be my abjuration now of thee
In consequence of what prevailed (and all that’s left of no avail)
My love for you will surely pale - all value and advantage fail
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As morning lays her hands upon my sill
Ethereal threads of night I cling to still
And holding as they whisper from my mind
The revenant trace of you they leave behind
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Should a veil of fear and suffering cause me at the end
To forget the love and kindness of you all
If I say such and such and this or that and it offend
Forgive this feeble body at its fall
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At timbers edge where it curtains a hill
In the loamy shadows there something lay still
The tiny body of a sparrowhawk
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Self medication needs dedication
Only the brave can never be saved
From self infliction of their addiction
To their own choices they are enslaved
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I wish you’d seen the man in me
And not the one you hoped I’d be
The love that I’d have freely given
Before this heart was sorely riven
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Fix ever thine eyes on the far and dark horizon
Look not to the verges of thy path for there lays only diversion
Step lightly, and glad be thine heart that your path is now before thee
Fear nought, for the shield you bear is my love
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The Earth’s curve is revealed to me
As asphalt disappears
Beneath my boots and wheels I see
The rushing of the years
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When vigorous the north wind blows across the steppe as far as Kent
Victorious his power shows in falling tiles and trees full bent
Then cold I wander to the line where saxon viewed the sea at will
And over marshy distance gaze toward red citadel on hill
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For honour named are thee as Petrarch’s Muse
Alive to me as she to he once crowned
By royal leaves that marked a king’s renown
That Caesar’s force his empire might effuse
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At once I came awake in darkness knowing
That you were not beside me in the night
The fear within my veins a river flowing
Unstoppable as you might be in flight
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It’s never easy, this losing all you value thing
But you just don’t see it coming in that way
Unguarded we stand as the waves boil down upon us
And shatter every atom in their spray
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If, say at heaven’s gate, you and I should meet anew
Would time accelerate again disappearing from our view?
Would you begin to speak like me and I in turn like you
And dressed alike roam paradise both laughing like we knew
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Hard monument to bloody days
Darkly in the shadows lies
Hidden here from grateful gaze
Of nation she had come to save
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This dolorous wound that festers still, caused me by your thoughtlessness
Given that you might fulfil fate’s destiny with someone else
Is fair reminder to me now and every day that hence I breathe
That should I ever think to love, that love’s own darts remain ensheathed
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Make not light of this condition
It drags you down and I’ve been wishing
That something new would come along
And fill my empty soul
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Strange yet, how we dangle from the slightest shred of hope
Those flimsy gossamer wisps that could not possibly support us
We who love yet are not loved by return
We whose sense deserts us
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Softer now the shadows are as evening steals across the ground
And darkness her oily mantle drapes the distant hills without a sound
Come now, come my own sweet love and walk with me some little time
Spend with me these secret moments, and here on mossy bank recline
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