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Nightvisions

I DREAM OF LIGHTING DANCING IN A RED SKY. BLACK CLOUDS ACID RAIN THE EARTH SWEEPS BEFORE ME HORIZONS OF SILENT DESOLATIONS A CHASM OF GREAT VOLUME BREAKS BEFORE MY VISION LIKE A WAVE OF DRY SAND DIVIDING GREAT LANDS ONCE RULED AEONS AGO BY ANCIENT EMPIRES ONE OF "GOD WE TRUST" AND MINI MARTS ONE OF THE GREAT MOTHERS RED STAR. THEY RUSHED IN A RAGE TO THE FIERY END IN THEIR LAST PAGES AN AGE BURNED THE EARTH IN THERMO FROST ICY FIRE A DAY THE WORMWOOD FELL NOW A MILLENNIUM FOLD DEATH REELED IN GLEE FOR IT IS LORD OF THIS LIVIN’ HELL AS I HEARD IN STORIES TOLD THE LAST LINE OF EVE THE LOST LEGIONS OF ADAM HUMANITY COWER ON A BRIDGE OF STONE AND GLASS, RUST BLEEDS INTO DYING GRAND RIVER DRIED REMAINS OF GREAT OCEANS, BRIDGING LANDS OF ANCIENT WORLDS, ONCE IN TIME HOPE TRIED TO QUITE HATE AND RAGE IN A DISTANCE AGE A HANGING FORTRESS OF HOVELS WAS FORGED A MILLENNIA TOLD WHERE SOULS SCRAPE OUT A MEAGER LIFE A RAMBLING MONA5TERIES OF OLD CARS AND NEON BARS WHERE CAGES OF IRON HIDE WOODEN CROSSES FAITH IN THE AFTERLIFE I STAND BEFORE THE BEHEMOTH AND FEAR ITS MIGHTY SPANS THAT CRISSCROSSES FORGOTTEN LANDS (I WISH IT FROM MY SIGHT) IN DREAMS I SEE ITS MIGHTY SPIRES DESTROYING MY ENVISIONED LAST DESIRES MY IMAGES BRAKE AND FALL ONTO NIGHTMARES OF A ONCE GREEN WORLD NOW VISIONS RETURN BRIDGING THE LANDSCAPE OF MY MIND-EXPANDING A RUINED EARTH UNDER CRIMSON SKY DISEASED BLACKENED THUNDERHEADS FLY ROVING TUNDRAS OF GLASS BLOWN BROKEN SAND I WIPE ACID RAIN FROM MY NECK I TURN AND LEAVE THIS TOWERING WRECK OF VERMILION CHROME BLEEDING INTO INFERNAL LANDSCAPES & NIGHTVISIONS (Based on a real nightmare)

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Book: Shattered Sighs