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Original Zombies

By Peter Scott

Casualties across the land
A virus impregnable
Borne of hope
Desire
It is all around us
Surrounds me
Coerces friends
Kills a part of the soul
Wrath unspeakable
No need for a carrier
The people exalt it
��Dream
��About it
��Live
��For it
��Die
��Because of the disease
But now I am infected
Pondering over extinction
Fingers hold on
To sanity so precious
Friend to most
And to me
Dis-ease
One singular joy
Causing terror among the system
Cold and alone
Dark in heaven
Corner I long for
Holding the wall of the dead
Who are alive?
They speak
In tongues misinterpreted
Cast as the fool
Shunned by the molds
Left a clichéd letter
Among the rules of the alphabet
Once space was spoken to
It said
Flatly, without passion

“Either I be hurt
The one I care be hurt
Or
My life be wrecked”

Three outcomes
Pain in thy eyes
Trying to avoid
The only conception worth mentioning.



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