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Vitality Unbound

from RAM & C by Alius Vita

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No end, a step like one before
And when I see an open door
I won't look to some future place
I'll wait for it to show its true face
It may yet be beauty that looks just like yours
Or it may just lead to yet more open doors
For I have my own life, and, well, so do you
I know that I must choose, and so, I'll do
Many have been the years that we've spent apart
And though I feel them all deep within my heart
Recollections of all of these past visions
None of them can alter my decisions

The spectral face, so powder-pale
Not her, you'd never know her tale
The rosy glow that fell to white
She wields no sword, she needs no might
The ghosts I knew so long ago
They sang of life; I sank below
Vitality escapes the few
While I was dead, she only grew

Transfixed inside her midnight eyes
And how could it be otherwise
My silent dream, my bird in flight
And how could this be another night
Uncertainty remains the norm
I drift and taste her honeyed form
I'm always, always on this quest
For prophecy is flawed at its best
I've mired myself, I'm miserable and meek
I've tired myself, I'm unable to speak
I've walled and I've wallowed; these are protections
I've fallen, followed, without directions
Tell me, where lay goddess, and so where lay god
In the river farthest, deep under the sod
On the highest summit, inside of storm clouds
Or in stars, comets, covered by dark shrouds

I see an image of a face
One I would have wished to erase
It doesn't seem to matter now
And, well, there is no mystery how
With tethers cut, my ship roams free
I will accept the seven seas
And to the past, apply no patch
Life goes by fast: do not attach

Where am I now? What could I be
I can't have faced such pains as she
Despite my faith that this was right
I dared to think the end in sight
In doing so, the smoke was clear
Her, brave and true, like Bedivere
She triumphed over every shade
And I knew then that years would fade

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from RAM & C, released November 16, 2023

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