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One Step Beyond Weariness

Drew Nacht

Gotta get me some new kind of shoes
to walk on all these thorns surrounding me—
how far can a fella get in a pair of rubber soled shoes?
The damn spikes will puncture my feet and down I will go.
Then again,
my hands are filled with the blood
gushing from THE puncture holes all over my body.
So why should my feet be any different?
It’s gray blood I am leaking,
disappointment blood,
betrayal blood,
and I can’t imagine the promised land anymore in my mind’s eye.
So let the darkness come,
life has let my consciousness down for the last time-
my heart can’t read the future any more than the next man
but residue from the last bullet in my gun has already landed.
I don’t envy the young and I don’t despise the old,
it’s just time is all.
It’s time for time to push me into the abyss.
My arms are open but don’t mistake that for eagerness-
It’s just in anticipation of that one step beyond weariness

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