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UNTIL THE AFTERGLOW

Oh, I won't be silent & I won't let go

I will hold on tighter 'til the afterglow - Ed Sheeran

 

I remember when summer

Kissed my walking skin warm

Now it seems eternity claims

My body breath spirit brain

 

In the silence of tonight

I will myself to stand upright

Startled slip then almost fall

Into the gravity of it all

 

Angels on the archipelago

Devils in...

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australian poetryEd SheeranSpoken word

The Origin of Silence

He came like an ancient prophecy

sparked by the howling of the seasons.

Those who pursued him knew nothing of his arts

They did not see him sewn into the four winds

They did not hear him no matter how loud he sang.

In this time of virus and plague true hunger bares its teeth.

A fierce breaking, a shaking and a flailing

A swooning and a sweating, a cruel fever falling

All ab...

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