Short Excised Poems

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Just Beyond The Gate 
David J Walker

There is a road
	there is a cliff
there is certain rendezvous
just beyond where

There is life 
	There is death 
There is light lit 
By excised breath 

There is sleep 
	Lying in wait 
Just beyond a
Final dawn and unknow fate where

There is the low laughter
	Of a river
And pasture with green grass  
Just beyond the gate...

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Darkness envelopes me seeping into every cell
Icy tendrils as unyielding as the moment that brought me here
Here to this place of unrelenting grief.

My breath is excised from this remnant of my former self
As I wander alone in the overwhelming expanse
Of this darkness that has become my existence.

Though the world relegates itself of I your bearer
This heart holds your memories and keeps you close
While I dream of you...until my time fades to black....

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