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Wasting Beauty

Sleep untold in nights forgotten millions oblivious always of ever singing light Sleep, and dream not of trees or scintillating canopies of leaves the grass blades do not shimmer green nor flowers of myriad colours seem Sleep, in an awakenings half remembering play the landscapes dancing with shadows vibrant Do not heed a single clouds language come, ignore th azure skies whispering Hold not this planet so in this drowsy somnolent pillow the hills and forest will not help you no rivers bed for comfort protect you In valleys the unnumbered stars never shine so vast a universal to hold you this embraced epiphany falters in their paths and patterns lost beneath the darkness of desperate rock Go to sleep and in the wasting, do not see Echo dower this drear as somber be as falling petals lost this year Bird wind and trumpet melody only play the dirge of a mountains finality covet not the mere imaginings but break instead upon poisons wretch Go to sleep and in the wasting, do not see

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