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This Lama's Not For Riding By David Stansfield

I felt it slip through my fingers
It seared my skin yet I felt no pain
And, as it fell to the floor
I heard it groan like a wounded animal
When I looked down
I could not see it
Hear it
Taste it
Smell it
Love it or hate it
Yet I felt its breath on my neck
As it struggled
To cling on to this lost soul

I used to believe
I used to believe in good and bad
I used to believe in greater things
I used to believe in lesser things
But now
I've lost belief in belief itself

I saw burning on top of the world
I saw looting on the roof of the world
I saw clouds make shapes
Like angry hands
And I listen to the names on the list
As the roll call sighs
When it breathes the names of the dead
There are others
There will be more
If death is a number
Then belief is a curse
Or worse

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To Live Again

She sits in silence bu the sea
And thinks about what might have been
She sees the waves crash to the shore
And wishes she was one of them

But as the Dunlins strut and the Cormorant dives
She wonders why she's still alive
The beast within rejects her call
For death to come and end it all

She remembers youth, a distant friend
Why did the good times have to end
Age only brings great fear and pain
And a trip to the unknown again

She's lived the life of all it's got
Taken, laughed at all the knocks
Now she beats her head against the rocks
And as her red blood stains the greying sea
She cries with one last breath I'm free
To live again