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Starflakes dropping Within the moon's shadow Glisten in the last dredges Of the sun's last salute Fall on bare skin And unsuspecting hearts An instant of flashburn, pain Scarred forevermore Bask in the starshine Follow the path ahead Bear the scars as badges Of choices made before

Now, standing in these hollowed halls Writing scribbled across the walls Words bringing warnings and blessings both Letters give promises of new growth Across the hall a mirror is stretched On it our lives are blazed and etched To stand up proudly before the crowds Their knowing eyes tear our fragile shrouds With a shriek, innocence is shattered Feelings, emotions, insides battered Pieces flung to the four directions Captured amongst our imperfections And from the wreckage, life emerges Clinging to a future that verges Just shy of the edge to an upward slope So dangerously close to valiant hope

Snow white glistens, turns a rosy red Sun setting just behind the clouds The world stretches on forever, when it's just you and me By rights we should be bundled up Warm, beside the fire Steaming hot cocoa in hand But, when did we do as we were told? Instead, we are out here In the middle of the aftermaths of a blizzard, At least that's what the news man said, And there is nothing for company but the fresh snow Oh, and the little birds that are just settling down And the little mammals, curled up round each other for warmth And all we can do is echo them Curled up tightly, settling in Here, in this winter wonderland that reach

White teeth glinting in the candle light Spirit speaker's smile, as misleading as the rest Behind the eyes, shadows move Reflecting on the walls And the dizzying array of possibilities that line the floor Wax tumbling off the candle Falls, split split split Incomprehensible patterns Cross and crisscross The shadows see Listen! A mouth open, no sound emerges A voice, paper thin through the cracks of reality A feeling, pulled this way and that by the- A thought, half heard in the madness Sinister smile, holds out a hand Decoding the mess All the while offering promises, Exactly what you want to hear Take a walk down the rabb