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Footsteps in sand stepped

A fortune withheld, a future kept

Legends of an old land

Blurred and ripped

Sunken ships

Lifelong trip

Asleep by sun walk by the moon

Time out of time much too soon

Time within time

Within mine

Myths of a time

Legends from a man

Will of a boy

To which I stand

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Each night walked a wish to stop

Begged forward

Pulled forward

Stopped yet again

It’s time to move again.

Questions come in droves

Answers, too, but not the right ones

Old ones

Wrong ones. Long ones, unneeded.

Answers emptied into the sand. Thoughts bled to the grain

The first rain

The second pain

No longer a phantom.

The sun burns the sky longer each day.

Sand Sand Sand Sand Sand

And

Halfway there

Only I don’t know it

Twice as long half the night

Half the night twice the light

Red orbed god like stare

Knows I’m there

Knows

A figure in the horizon come into view

Hope alights anew

Faster I run

Father speaks faster

I oblige. I run. I run.

Finally.