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POETRY | REBIRTH
The Endless Cradle
Sing me to sleep
It can be said that in the cradle
of night, death sings,
swaying my heart,
a tune played by a father.
It was a dream,
and its vision caused me
to lie down,
as if in the night:
“Sleep now, dear child,
sleep with eyes like moons.”
We are shadows,
and our garden is in full bloom.
Start to finish, a woeful turn.
It is soil-soft, cold to the touch—
the skin where laughter is thin.
A dance of broken people,
a devil in a face.
Life after life is a sewing
in the ripping apart.
For what we care,
your life is but a game
that nobody knows even exists—
a mere pinprick in the vast
darkness of space.
Keep it lit, watch it flicker,
watch it spark.
But alas,
this is a woeful lark of a man.
With every breath,
I stand back in my position.





