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Augenblick
Augenblick
By David J Walker
The edge the border
The verge the skirt
The last words heard before
The brink
The perimeter the periphery
The point the bound
A wink
All found before the final line
That, if crossed
All is lost
In the circumference of extremity on
The brink of death as the
Augenblick of the final step
Into what waits beyond
The threshold the precipice
The outer limit brim
Too often
I find myself standing
too near
To the partition of the purlieus
and fear the loss of footing
before the zenith leads
to the nadir
And I am left in the position
Of a historian with
Nothing more to fear
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