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The Askance Chapter 4 Part 5b
“Dwellers of the Ancients, is all be seeking The Fallen atop?
Well… be advised and turn back for to entertain he will not
It's been far too long since mortals have come before our sight
And above all, the coming of mortals is often the coming of blight
Yet,...

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The Askance Chapter 4 Part 5a
Truth... Is It true?

From somewhere lost atween stolen time
Some things left forgotten was remembered
Darkness moaning for lights to shine
Indefinite yet enticing to have feelings desired

Once was love I see… ever once was love in reality
I recall how it all withers and shatters, of love and...

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The Askance Chapter 5 Part 5b
At my will, it began to glow a little with a startling tingle
Daring a series of slashes, I feel to be more at ease as I mingle
And into the rhythm, I forget away my troubles behind
Channeling my very soul to be one with the sword...

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Askance
We look, askance, at self in jest
with naked, empty eyes;
we try to chart the track that’s best
through life’s uncertain skies.

We cannot make an outward choice
without an inward glance
to check the state of mother’s voice--
we dare not take the chance.

The lords of ambiguity,
we work to earn...

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The Askance Chapter 6 Part 2c
All the answers I need were left in riddles for my modern mind to decipher
Chasing after the impossible puzzle to only find it opens to another
Evermore so, I find I have not the strength to carry on
Yet… there is no place like this I can...

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The Askance Chapter 4 Part 4a
In The Realities Of Despair

Anxiety has kept me awake since many a night
Though exhausted as I am, I’m unable still to sleep
Corners of my house hasn’t a darkness no more to hide
Is there only defiance for a tormented heart to weep?

I sat rooted in trance,...

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The Askance Chapter 4 Part 4b
Unwashed but felt, my single to every a tear sunk with the rain
Is there no life of my own can I exchange for hers to remain?}

“Though your heart may be pitiful in nature
It is seen that strength exist in one’s heartfelt structure
The tragedy witnessed is...

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The Askance Chapter 4 Part 6a
An After Another

Of a misguided soul in a misguided time
Misfortune is to arise, simply and only simply
Yet, I’m in doubt whether learnt have I to entwine
To resolve any misguidance as willingly as surely

Each passing day, I’m but to think of Alkaiya a little more
Perhaps more...

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The Askance Chapter 4 Part 2a
To Usher In The Inevitable

It was to be moments never thought to be
Moments to only belong in dreams
Darkness too dark to come before humanities to see
Minds in paranoia is ever to seem…

I knew that dreams were my portal into the Ancients
Yet I never can accept...

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The Askance Chapter 4 Part 5d
{And as we progress ever onward, I related all that need be said
Recounting only of recent and never the past for Twit to partake
Astonishingly for one as he, Twit’s astounding silence was almost unbearable
Listening too attentively, yet his welcoming approach was indeed charitable
And with the...

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The Askance Chapter 5 Part 6c
There is no way forward should even if against I’m to plead
The only way for a return, is how the ancient words will read
And only for a return, nay a way it opens forward for my time
And to return possessed… I beckon for my past...

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Askance
And the cemetery was thunderstruck,
so was I.
Cold, gray, March evening—
winds pushing the clouds
spewing slanting icy rain, 
with a low angry murmur.

From the traffic signal I saw you,
standing firm on the ground
your neck stretched upward,
looking directly above 
past the rain that occluded your view

Your blonde hair...

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Categories: askance, death,
Form: Verse
The Askance Chapter 1 Part 6b
Life is only to be this much and nothing more
Learn to simply forget those memories unnecessary to recall
Unforgiving is time to bid one’s undesired sorrows to end
Embrace the feelings taught less to enable oneself to further comprehend
Never once is time the reason to forgive misfortunes...

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The Askance Chapter 4 Part 6b
Excusing himself into his domains, I returned to Alkaiya’s side
Hence was Twit shying to a corner with a spirit in a lost-fill light
With silence turning into darkness, thoughts were in despair
All hopes seem lost to a sheering point of no return to be aware
Where of...

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The Askance Chapter 1 Part 6a
Of Life Unknown

Those nights simply vanishes along
A memory of her only remains now in dreams
In exchange, is of lonesomeness whence love begone
Alike some thoughts, taking upon stolen wings

Somehow time amazes me much still
Little by little, I’ve forgotten how to love her
Time, probably being the best...

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