Future Proof

Blessed be the double post, folks. I’ve got a second one hot off the press that almost feels like it gave me whiplash. I hope you like it. Without further ado…

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Future Proof

Here and now,

I am cast away.

Torn asunder

in times of great blunder.

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Astride a stormy sea I sail,

against a howling, hungry gale

as whispers follow close behind,

and my face will tend to a sickly pale.

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Visions of a vaunted hall,

an idea that I could have it all,

and then it was,

there began the fall.

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In that dark and stormy night,

reflected in the quiet maelstrom,

are black and blue and all things bruised,

and all the things I sought to lose.

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Blessed then by darker gods,

and troubled by those crying thoughts,

I am reminded of the loss.