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Current Mood: hopeful

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New poem

Fine

Change is a
Crucible
And I am on fire;

The world burns
So hot
Nothing false in me
Can escape the flame

(and i hope
to survive it
i pray)

If we are
Any of us
To be okay
Ever again

We must rise in truth
Within the funeral pyre
Of our failures.

This is—

Current Mood: tired

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dreams

Dream surrealism

Last night's sleep was Bad in complex ways (I woke up at 6, tried to get back to sleep and did not until after 7, and then had to be up at 8:30 for church service). But that meant I woke up in the middle of a dream and thus remember some bits of it.

( Just a few remembered snippets, mostly because I remember them from telling KJ this morning. )

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This one depends on theology actually (not that that is rare for these)

Ink

I would remake
My flesh
As mine:

Engrave
Protection and
Devotion
Across my skin
And never be devoid
Of my attributes
Of power.

See:
I have claimed my heart
I will inscribe a god
On every limb.

I shall not be robbed again.