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Once upon a day light nap
I find my self born bare
Lying in a meadow
Alone with my despair
Soon I spot a shanty
I find some shelter there
Along with some stale crackers
Clothes in tatters and a chair
I sit for a moment
And consume the evening air
There’s nothing to myself
Except for what I now wear
I conclude to leave at dawn
Out the front door that I stare
A quest of my own making
To an end I know not where
***
In this mid-day dreamscape
I roamed across the land
A nomad on a journey
Without a helping hand
I searched through every city
For someone to understand
But all I found was vacancy
Throughout this wasted land
I conquered many a demon
I vanquished plenty of damned
I slew the ghouls that haunt the woods
All erased by my own hand
**
Within a brief day slumber
I live a thousand years
And throughout those thousand years I cry
A million or more tears
Until I come to a vast ocean
And rest upon its piers
The crashing waves of solitude
Gives peace from my own fears
*
Then I awoke and was no more
The being I was before
That person was left behind
Like some forgotten lore
~April ‘21
~Bödwhíst