Re: DARK ALLOY / Michael Pendragon / w&a

> Anonymous wrote:
> DARK ALLOY
>  
>  
> I dreamt that I would never die
> That time and age would pass my door,
> That dreams and dreamers never lie
> But now I know the score.
> 
> I used to soar on fancy's wings
> Write foolish dreams across the sky,
> But life cares not for foolish things
> And life has passed me by.
> 
> I thought the world a costume ball
> That one need only join the dance,
> But though I tried, and gave my all
> I never had a chance.
> 
> My youth is gone, my dreams are dead
> The band has left, the dance is done,
> My eyes grow dim, life's joys have fled
> But still I linger on.
> 
> Now time and age wait at my door
> And fortune's clipped my youthful wings,
> And all the dreams I'd dreamt before
> Are bound with twine and strings.
> 
> And as I gaze up at the sky
> I wonder where my youth has flown,
> I sit and watch the world go by
> And slowly turn to stone.




"For on its wing was dark alloy,
And, as it flutter'd " fell
An essence " powerful to destroy
A soul that knew it well."

-- Edgar A. Poe 


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