You grab your coat,
Ill grab my cap,
Leave your fears behind,
We'll need no map!
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Let's go on an adventure,
And seize the night,
We'll traverse the landscape,
Guided only by moonlight.
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Roaming the streets,
We could do no wrong,
I stole a pumpkin,
You sang a song.
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Jumping in puddles,
Giggling and dripping wet,
Loving the freezing cold,
Weird stares from all we met.
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Playfighting and silly jokes,
We acted like little ones,
Sure, we may have seemed foolish
But never did we have more fun!
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We strayed from the path,
From society to the wild,
The painful pitfalls we encountered,
Were anything but mild.
-
Barbed wire snared your foot,
Branches brained me without fail,
But all we could do was laugh,
And had no thought to wail.
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Jumping that rusted fence,
We entered that rolling plain,
Hazy clouds and flashing lights,
Our excitement began to wane.
-
Muddy footprints in our wake,
As we talked matters of the heart,
Though I felt our souls connect,
Did I put the horse behind the cart?
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Reaching the streets once more,
You wanted to lead the way,
Grey clouds cried to turn back,
But with you I decided to stay.
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Onward through the storm,
We pushed further on,
I was ignorant of our final destination,
Until we reached that lawn,
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Were you shivering from the rain,
Or from an internal chill?
You trembled before the truth,
Afraid to swallow that pill.
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Wanting to jump from that cliff,
To reach that far away dreamland,
Feet off the earth, eyes full of tears,
You were grounded only by my hands.
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You struggled in my arms,
Begging me to let you go.
Frustrated and hurting,
But I knew I could not release you so.
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Eventually the resistance ceased,
Your body collapsed in my grasp.
Calling me your savior, you could not see,
I had desperately donned my mask.
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Back to my home,
We hurried on the double.
Behind a porcelain shell,
Sorrow began to bubble.
-
I dressed in black,
And you garbed in white,
We, together, shared a bed,
To rest till daylight.
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Tucked deep in covers,
Your weary body chose to lay,
It wasn't the linens that kept you warm,
But my hopeful wishes smoldering away.
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So close together,
And yet so far apart,
You heard a creaking bed,
I heard a cracking heart.
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The sun has finally come,
Blinding us from the night passed.
And while the journey torments me even still,
I pray that it won't be our last.
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Submitted: December 09, 2009
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