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Mould and Decay

A WANING SUN HAD SET THE SCENE
 
0N A DYING GRAVEYARD ALL SERENE 

BUT MOULD AND DECAY HAD HAD ITS WAY

IT LIVED AND THRIVED WHEN ALL  HAD DIED

LIFES A LIFELONG VIRTUAL DREAM 

ON A UNIVERSAL TIME MACHINE

INITIALISED BY A BABIES CRY
 
EXPIRING IN   UNTIMELY DEATH

ECHOING ONE LONG LAST LINGERING BREATH

 AND IN BETWEEN THESE TIMELY SCENES

A FLEDGLING SOULS WASTED DREAMS 

AN  ETERNITY OF LIFE LIES THERE

CLOAKED IN A REALM OF DESPAIR

TIME HAD TIME ENOUGH TO SCHEME

AND TIME HAS TIME  TO DECIDE

AN UNTIMELY DEATH FOR THOSE WHO DIED



 

THE DEVILS DARKNESS SWEPT AWAY
 THE FADING LIGHT OF A DYING DAY
TO CONCEAL THE SCENE OF MILDEWED GREEN
 MOSS PAINTED STONES AND GRAVEYARD BONES
 IN AGED VANDALISED DECAY

DAYS WANING LIGHT SEDUCED THE NIGHT 
TO CHASE AWAY THE DYING LIGHT
CLINGING TO THE GRAVEYARD STONES
OF MILDEWED MOSS AND BLACKEND BONES

WHAT BRINGS ME HERE 
TO A PLACE SO DREAR
WITH ITS MOULD AND DECAY
LIVING AND DYING AWAY 

ITS SURVIVING AND THRIVING 
WHEN ALL ELSE IS STRIVING
TO HIDE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AWAY
TIL  RESURRECTION DAY

WHENTHE TRUMPETS EXPEL
 EVERYONE FROM THEIR CELL
TO SPRING CLEAN ITS SUCH A DISGRACE
I WOULDNT BE SEEN DEAD IN THE PLACE 

THE INMATES WERE ALL KEEN 
TO JOIN IN THE SCHEME


AND WITHOUT ANY MOANS
 ABOUT ACHING BONES

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Acrosss the Timeless Realms of Space

Acrosss the timeless realms of space
The battered starship streaks 
Spitting forth its probing beams 
To trace the human signs it seeks,
Left by the sons of sons of previous ones 
Far in the ancient past 
To find and colonise a world 
So the human race would last
But with fuel so low it did,nt show 
With all their hope deminished the saga was finished 
But the returning gleam from a reflected beam
That returning blip now steered the ship 
To a world with a trace of a human race
With the return of belief and joys of relief  
The crew set to land and renew 
Frendly relations with this long lost race
And replace them with a human  trace 
 But the first expedition that had been before 
Had taught the natives to question more
To build a pyramid and realise 
Its the only way to the heavenly skies
And live again in paradise. 
So Adam and Eve lived a life of ease 
To do as they please
and to mate with a local ape and create
a humanoid