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Raptures of the depths

                              Raptures of the depths








Had I heard

 Or my mind played me tricks
 Had I sensed it
The drag
 Or my head is just messed up

 Faded whispers
Hushes extinct
 Deadness in the plainest of terms
  The rush of silence that’d followed
 It was deafening
 A lot too loud

 It almost became rhythm
 The faded breaths becoming lyrics
 Both twined into melody
 Birthing a strange tune
 Soothing to my ears
Pleasing to my soul

 Then it all vanished
From my head that is
The heights faded
 Fear swept away
 And the breeze that’d been still
 Became a whirlwind then

 I was caught in
Hardly a moment left to comprehension
 Expanses shrunk
 And in a most beckoning of voices
 I heard the call
T’was mother
 Earth...

 Her voice
The gentlest whisper
Her scent
Brought roses to mind
Her tune
A calm assurance
 A call to eternity
T’was all it sang of

“…Come.”

The mountains became plains
 The plains, slopping runways
The hedges..
Rows of daises endlessly on
 The wind stopped then
 And as I plucked out a daisy
I felt the plunge
 Down and off
My foot left the cliff


Into the depth I sank
 Silence played the melody
 Ever soft I sank lower still
 Dark settled defiantly as ever
 Played the peddling lead never better
 The depths sang

 A different tune this time
 Her voice still warped about my head
 Playing me a solo
 Reassuring, I hardly believed
 It was sonorous
 I heard naught no longer

 “Come, I will catch..”

She promised
 It’d been too calm
 To have been a lie
 It’d been too soft
 To be a hoax

 Her voice
 The melody of her song
 The sooth of her tune
 It’d been a perfect lie

 “Come…”

 It’d been the third call
 Her last call
 It’d been the magic
 Her wound spell
 It’d worked
Right in time


 As the tugs settled
 It’d called
 I’d heeded
 As my senses sprang to life
 I’d heeded to her

 “Come…”

 T'was all I could hear now
All that reverberated
 It was all of music
 All my soul craved
 It was a call to the deep

 I tumbled
 Shut my eyes to living
 The daisy slipped off my finger
 A stray petal brushed my cheek
 I grasped unto nothing
Her cord groped
 My neck stiffened

I breath once more
The last it had been
Time ceased
I faded into the mares
Becoming your memory



 'Siyah

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