Gone Ocean Ending

from The Living Lions by Saint Deadmule

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Hey, what have you saved for me?

Has our citadel signaled its final hurrah?
Has the sawmill forgotten its flume?
Them rusty bells ringing a toll on our hearts
as the archer abandoned his tomb:
all shakingly slack-jawed, he shambled along
down a corridor ending in gloom,
where chain'ed and ghostly, our grizzly was dozing
in gathering gold afternoon.

“Well, I thought I was some kind of hero,” he (The Archer) said,
“and the shoulders I rode said the same.
So stairlessly looming, such towers consumed
all the virtue that lived in my name.
So sanction me some absolution, my friend,
though I warrant no grain of reprieve.
And pardon the path that my arrow sought out
as it sailed from my anger to thee.
But weren't we lucky to live and be known?
But weren't we lucky, my friend?”

Unguarded, it lists along harbors uncharted,
the last living lion unknown.
These christian bodies by lamp-light were shown,
but no supper was made of their bones.
No kingdom is empty of anger, my friend,
and no gardens live gatelessly on.
And each gone ocean ending we fell down defending
appeared to us once and were gone...

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from The Living Lions, released January 1, 2019

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Mostly an illustrator, but I make music sometimes. Lots more to come!

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