tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24104914613439443232024-03-13T10:06:57.520-07:00An Amateur PoetA blog dedicated solely and wholly to all sorts of poetic work, ranging from sonnets and ballads to free versed. You shall come across poetry that arouses noble sentiments, inspires and empowers the reader, and reaches the deepest roots of human motivation through its appeal to a human being’s innate attraction to beauty. So, welcome to my world! and I hope you enjoy!Faraz Zafarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08467847751079599826noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410491461343944323.post-92187351158859173702016-06-15T03:00:00.001-07:002016-06-15T03:00:22.947-07:00Puntastic Ideas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The idea seemed pretty <i>emusing,</i></div>
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I'm <i>toadally</i> up said I for this thing.</div>
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It may well be the <i>sealiest</i> thing you've heard,</div>
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Being completely <i>irrelephant</i> and absurd.</div>
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But trust me it's <i>whale</i> lot of fun,</div>
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And isn't half as <i>hawkward </i>once it's done.</div>
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Oh and you <i>toucan</i> sure play the game!</div>
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You don't need any <i>koalafications</i> to your name.</div>
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I'm not <i>kitten </i>you as you might think,</div>
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All you<i> goata </i>do is to link the link.</div>
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<i>Turtle </i>down and relax cause it's easily done,</div>
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But the <i>chimpion</i> will be the one who won.</div>
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I understand it must be getting really <i>boaring</i> for you,</div>
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Don't worry, <i>anotter</i> couple of lines and you're through.</div>
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And yes, If u liked it do let<i> minnow</i>!</div>
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<i>Owl </i>be waiting in the comments below.</div>
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Nothing equals the happiness one gets,</div>
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In uplifting a soul weighed down by regrets.</div>
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Nothing equals the happiness one can acquire,</div>
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Seeing in let down eyes, a newly lit fire.</div>
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Happiness is showing the light of the day,</div>
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To a lonely heart, dripping with dismay.</div>
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Happiness is holding a feeble hand,</div>
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Knitting a life together strand by strand.</div>
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Happiness is a unique state of mind,</div>
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With mercy and kindness it's entwined.</div>
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Pointing out good while all others see is bad,</div>
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Leaving behind all the reasons to be sad.</div>
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Kindness heals every wound, setting the heart free,</div>
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As I set off to reach further than the kites,</div>
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To break old records and conquer new heights.</div>
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Hey guys!! You all must be knowing Gruuuu from the Despicable Me movie series. Honestly I loved the character and so here's my attempt at a write up on my favorite aspect of the character.... Enjoy!! </div>
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A mind so sharp, a villain like none other,</div>
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The plan to steal the moon was a gradual process,</div>
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His attitude towards his 3 little girls was exemplary.</div>
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For to opinions, you're not a slave,</div>
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Are wasting the wondrous opportunity to live,</div>
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This life is precious and brief,</div>
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So stand for others while you can.</div>
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Fill it with happiness not grief,</div>
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Of your existence in this short span.</div>
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Ever heard 'Bridge' the differences?</div>
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Ever heard 'Bridge' the gaps?</div>
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Of a bridge one can make several inferences,</div>
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Most importantly two ends together it clasps.</div>
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A bridge is a binding force,</div>
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One of many a name.</div>
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To the force that many endorse,</div>
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Yet others find the description unreal,</div>
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That we need lots of them to be,</div>
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For the people to interlink!</div>
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For the society to act as one,</div>
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Many ideas are born under the sun,</div>
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For they be the seeds of happiness we sow.</div>
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From the most beautiful mornings,</div>
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To the most enchanting evenings,</div>
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From the spring to the frosty fall,</div>
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It's lived through to witness it all.</div>
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It's been there across generations and yet more to come,</div>
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Be it scientists or the philosophers, to it they succumb.</div>
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It has shouldered many a tired backs,</div>
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It has sheltered many homeless folks,</div>
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In many, a sense of nostalgia it invokes.</div>
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As it's always been there under the yew tree,</div>
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Open to everyone, without as little as a fee.</div>
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Scribbled across its surface are countless marks,</div>
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A sense of wonder in me every time it sparks.</div>
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A living history book it is for all, to see and touch,</div>
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Just be gentle with it... It's already aged much!</div>
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From a homeless man counting his days,</div>
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To a young artist experimenting his ways.</div>
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Carving in it animals and smiling faces,</div>
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It's wood has preserved their long left traces.</div>
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It sits there as it has always had: peacefully,</div>
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Laughter was all that'd be heard through the day.</div>
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For it had a king whose all interests lay,</div>
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Practical jokers too, were high in demand,</div>
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Keep his majesty's pot belly jumping up and down,</div>
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For the king, there'd be arranged a special seating.</div>
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And while the ministers would argue and debate,</div>
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He'd wish he could just run away from there somehow.</div>
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He'd really miss all the clowns and their jokes,</div>
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Huh... I hope it doesn't take long he reckoned.</div>
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And then! As if by magic they all stopped!</div>
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Finally, the king had been relieved,</div>
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A long sigh of relief he heaved.</div>
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Like laughing his wits off till no more jokes he could stand.<br />
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United they come as the winter dawns,</div>
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Blanketing white, the hedges and the lawns.</div>
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Formed in the sky, millions of icy shapes,</div>
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Swirling slowly as they descend,</div>
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Young and old, they befriend.</div>
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A soft white fleece they come to be,</div>
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Over which, the delighted children ski.</div>
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Fluttering as they float in the winter wind,</div>
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Each one different from its fellow twin.</div>
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Bearing the most intricate patterns and designs,</div>
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Each in its brilliance, incandescently shines.</div>
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Glistening like gems in the moonlight,</div>
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Setting ablaze the darkness of the night,</div>
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They swirl and swirl and forever descend,</div>
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Till at last into the landscape they blend.</div>
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It feels as though you've nothing more to give,</div>
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It feels as though you've nothing left for to live,</div>
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Left all alone without a comforting friend,</div>
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The daylight is covered by a veil of darkness,</div>
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Life seems to you but a beautiful mess.</div>
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And to your open wounds with no one to tend,</div>
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Where has all your strength gone you wonder,</div>
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Wondering if your ways you'll ever mend,</div>
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It's apparent that the road has come to an end.</div>
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Standing at life's crossroads helpless,</div>
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With no words to express your distress.</div>
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When finally you run out of happiness to pretend,</div>
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For what you yourself made a so called 'end',</div>
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Was actually nothing more than a mere 'bend'.</div>
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Our ship; our vessel is battered and damaged,</div>
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Sleepless nights have left the crew famished.</div>
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My worthy crew, once pompously stood.</div>
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But now, they're thrown to every corner,</div>
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I beg of them to bear with me a little longer.</div>
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The raging storms have left us all battered,</div>
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And the black horizon above: hope's shattered.</div>
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But I've got keep them from wailing and despairing.</div>
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You see? I say. Our hope, the Ark's still sailing.</div>
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We'll soon make it ashore, to the bells,</div>
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To the harbour, the sun and the sea shells.</div>
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Oh men get up and take your positions,</div>
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We won't abandon the finest of expeditions!</div>
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And ah! finally! Some hope within them stirs,</div>
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The storm we then faced, my memory it blurs.</div>
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Yet when we opened our eyes through our shrouds,</div>
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Oh wake each of you from your deathly slumber!</div>
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The Most Merciful has made the storm encumber.</div>
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And see! At a distance is an earthly piece of land,</div>
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Our ship will now only rest on its golden sand.</div>
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Our ghost ship was greeted with whistles and bells,</div>
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And although my tattered Ark now peacefully dwells.</div>
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It's safe in the harbour but that's not what it's for,</div>
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It's meant to sail the oceans, it's meant to explore.</div>
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Regardless of it being made of wood and scrap,</div>
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It's meant to sail beyond the edges of the map.</div>
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Standing by the Colosseum's door,</div>
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In the shimmering armour he wore.</div>
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He grunts and takes a step forward,</div>
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His metal chains clink as he paces,</div>
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Staring up at the thousands of faces.</div>
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That greet him with screams of death,</div>
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Fueling the gladiator's so fiery a breath.</div>
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A table is laid over which the blades rest,</div>
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He tries them all, then chooses the best.</div>
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The choice of which he makes,</div>
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The sun batters down upon the field,</div>
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He looks upwards and raises his shield.</div>
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Standing at a distance is his foe, </div>
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His death would be painful and slow.</div>
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Both ready to fight till the death'd bite,</div>
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Either or both of them and end this fight</div>
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With no further thought they charged,</div>
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As the massive doors were barred.</div>
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The crowd burst into screams of life and death,</div>
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As dodging a blow, he swore under his breath.</div>
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His adversary was furious, he no less,</div>
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Each move counted, like a game of chess.</div>
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Blows he'd dodge and blows he'd give,</div>
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It was for what he'd come down to live.</div>
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The crowd chants death as if it were a hymn,</div>
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Spilling blood had become routine for him.</div>
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And when it was felt they fought equally hard,</div>
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One swift move of his caught the foe off guard.</div>
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The crowd erupted into screams once again,</div>
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As it looked like he won his part of the bargain.</div>
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The foe numb with pain, started to sway,</div>
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Death for him was just a fatal blow away.</div>
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He crouched, now at the mercy of his foe,</div>
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Closing his eyes, awaiting the final blow.</div>
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With a sword in his hand, a helpless foe at his feet.</div>
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The dominance he felt, was strangely incomplete.</div>
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Although the sword he bore was at his will,</div>
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Ready to strike down his worthy kill.</div>
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A faint conscience somewhere within him stirs,</div>
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Which expeditiously grows till him it blurs.</div>
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An ominous silence now covers the crowd,</div>
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As guilt, now hovers above him like a cloud.</div>
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Astonishingly, his sword rises to take the blow,</div>
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Bringing it fiercely downwards then he lets go.</div>
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It's a moment previously unwitnessed in history,</div>
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That someone lets go an inch away from victory.</div>
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The crowd, their mouths now wide open,</div>
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His deed, screamed what couldn't be spoken.</div>
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Cowardice! Someone from the crowd bellowed,</div>
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Soon enough, across the Colosseum 'coward' echoed.</div>
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He ignored them and turned around,</div>
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His feet still felt shaky on the ground.</div>
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But his mighty heart was content at last,</div>
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Never had he felt happiness so vast.</div>
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His foe though hadn't forgotten his part,</div>
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He had long practised, mastered the art.</div>
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The final blow, he was the one to impart,</div>
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As he put his sword through a content heart.</div>
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And as he fell, a feeble smile escaped his lips,</div>
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As with both hands his bleeding heart he grips.</div>
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The feeble smile now a painful laughter,</div>
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As he'd achieved the much sought after.</div>
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The hooting crowd now fell dead silent,</div>
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Was the scene for them a bit too violent?</div>
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Or perhaps the dead had become the valiant? </div>
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Hearts were moved. That was apparent.</div>
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People had learnt a lesson, if only for a day.</div>
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The Radioactive Man</h2>
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This is my humble tribute to the radioactive man,</div>
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Who returned to the nightmare from which everyone else ran.</div>
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And for 4 years, he's been working hard,</div>
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In a region from which everyone is barred.</div>
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The Fukushima incident brought great suffering,</div>
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Yet the survivors had someone for their comforting.</div>
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But what about those who were left behind,</div>
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Living souls like us, their salvation denied?</div>
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A great population, pretty much like us they were,</div>
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Then what? They were left all alone to suffer.</div>
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Some were left as they were, in cages or chains,</div>
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This was the plight of the animals of Fukushima,</div>
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About rescuing them? Neither a plan nor a schema.</div>
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Their road was more or less heading to a dead end,</div>
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Naoto Matsumura is worth dozens of those blokes.</div>
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At 50, his family are the pitiable survivors,</div>
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Of the 12.5 mile radiation zone with no supervisors.</div>
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He'd returned for them, knowing the risk,</div>
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Whose effects on his body'd be quite brisk.</div>
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In a city where nothing's left but standing stone,</div>
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'The Guardian of Fukushima's animals' he's known.</div>
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Lives in his farm, surrounded by animals,</div>
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Alone he takes care of not only cats and birds,</div>
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"I couldn't have cared less" he casually says,</div>
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When people point out radiation and his ways.</div>
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Redefining love and affection here comes a man,</div>
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We proudly call him,<b> 'The Radioactive Man of Japan'.</b></div>
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Close your eyes! And get ready to dream,</div>
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Light 'em up with your imagination's gleam.</div>
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Create an intricate mystical world of your own,</div>
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Fill it up with all the quixotic stuff you've ever known.</div>
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The closed door that's blocking your view,</div>
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It's the door of imagination, of fantasy unheard,</div>
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Which as a rule would seem most absurd.</div>
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Take a walk in the gardens of fantasy,</div>
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You shall come to face with a reality.</div>
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The reality of dreams, so profound, so true,</div>
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It's sparkling beauty, hiding in plain view.</div>
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Dream as though you never could have thought,</div>
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Of all the beautiful places you ever sought.</div>
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Of open fields, warm sun, and the unending sky,</div>
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For they are different, original like people's views,</div>
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Life is a broken-winged bird,</div>
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Unable to fly."</div>
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"Hold fast to dreams</div>
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For when dreams go,</div>
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Life is a barren field,</div>
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Frozen with snow."</div>
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Yet the human preferred over it its counterpart,</div>
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The unpredictable, unworthy organ. The heart.</div>
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The heart would make him laugh and cry,</div>
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'Encourage him to set futile goals sky high.</div>
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The heart would warmly console him then,</div>
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As he'd fail to achieve his goals time and again.</div>
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The brain had no feelings towards the pitiable soul,</div>
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The heart was a gentle, humble piece of flesh,</div>
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Yes, it was sentimental yet it'd feel strongly,</div>
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Against any deed done to a person, wrongly.</div>
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It felt sad that the human favored the brain,</div>
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To keep it's human happy and everyone it could.</div>
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The human tries to find the logic behind everything,</div>
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Love and compassion means to him nothing.</div>
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He lives but to fulfill his unending greed,</div>
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Yet the heart would be there when it he'd need.</div>
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The human felt neither of what the two said,</div>
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He'd try to stop their arguing till he dropped dead.</div>
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Was stuck someone. Human the judgmental.</div>
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Each would draw him towards its worthy self,</div>
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The brain tormenting him with losses and gains.</div>
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He eternally chained each one of them, utterly rebellious,</div>
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The world was a strange place for a little kid,</div>
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He used to feel accountable for all that he did.</div>
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There was no evil in that world he knew,</div>
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That clothing of all sorts, he'd label them as fraud.</div>
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It was a strange fact, very strange indeed,</div>
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For it would change the people he'd recognize,</div>
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The way they'd walk, and how they'd behave,</div>
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From casuals to fancy suits and dresses,</div>
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Expensive clothing had a serious effect,</div>
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The clothes themselves demanded respect!</div>
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He concluded. It was all an act of domination.</div>
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With the clothes ironically, the masters,</div>
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Enslaved they were since their first clothing thought he.</div>
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Across the meadows, over the fences,</div>
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Every inch therein is a feast for the senses.</div>
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To describe it to perfection where do I begin?</div>
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Well, it's a perfect worldly abode to dwell in.</div>
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It all starts with the first breath you take,</div>
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As the first rays of the sun wash over your face.</div>
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Illuminating all that there is to see and behold,</div>
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Having left nothing for the darkness to withhold.</div>
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Open fields, as far as the eye can see,</div>
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The blue sky above, stretching endlessly.</div>
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With the birds chirping and the flowers dancing,</div>
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Trust me, it's all quite mood enhancing.</div>
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A farmer boy and his flock of sheep strolled.</div>
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Water was drawn and fields were irrigated,</div>
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While at the local store, a short queue waited.</div>
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The weather was perfect, landscape picturesque,</div>
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Horses trotted and would happily spree.</div>
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The entire scenario was so lively!</div>
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Of men coming home, having toiled all day,</div>
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Every chance they get at depriving you,</div>
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Robbing you off all joy, leaving you blue.</div>
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Fake friends, fake relatives, fake people,</div>
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They'd talk to you looking in the eye,</div>
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As the atom bombs made their first kill.</div>
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Having cracked the Enigma, stood a team of men,</div>
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It was but an anonymous face,</div>
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Of a man of an unknown race.</div>
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Of some great leader perhaps,</div>
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Someone who'd redesigned maps.</div>
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It was as if he watched over the town,</div>
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And in all these years, he didn't frown.</div>
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The lines on his face were smooth,</div>
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Of a man, at the prime of his youth.</div>
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There he was, engraved in a hill,</div>
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His face, carved with great skill.</div>
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Highlighting his presence was a folklore,</div>
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Justifying its integrity, people swore.</div>
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That the great man had never walked their shore.</div>
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He was yet to come, a harbinger of good,</div>
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They longed to see him, if only they could!</div>
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One fine day, the mysterious man appeared,</div>
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Just according to the legend they'd reared!</div>
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"It's him!" Shrieked an old woman with delight,</div>
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As she opened her door to the man, gaily bedight.</div>
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He was taken aback by her sudden reaction,</div>
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The woman then held out her hand, pointing afar,</div>
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At his stone face, as radiant as an evening star.</div>
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Astonished he stood, in an awe,</div>
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Before he could pull himself all together,</div>
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The old woman had left, full of endeavor.</div>
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Spreading the news, she ran from house to house,</div>
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They had all started to gather around the man,</div>
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Without any delay, with all his might he ran!</div>
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For little did he know of what was happening,</div>
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All he knew to save his life he was scrambling.</div>
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And they darted after him like maniacs,</div>
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He ran expeditiously to the shore,</div>
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Untied his boat that was offshore. </div>
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And by the time to the shore they'd drawn,</div>
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Their long awaited legend had already gone.</div>
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Hahaha unexpected ending huh? I just love twists here and there in the plot. Hope you all enjoyed it!</div>
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A gleaming coin in his hand,</div>
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With an eyepiece he scanned.</div>
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And made notes of the same,</div>
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And on his desk sat other coins waiting,</div>
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Of gold and silver of the highest rating.</div>
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He studied each of them carefully, </div>
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For days and days, weeks rarely.</div>
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They were not merely restricted to his table,</div>
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Lying in every corner they were, yet to label.</div>
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A very peculiar man he was indeed,</div>
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A sea of coins he had in his possession,</div>
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His love for them had turned to obsession.</div>
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He was a true historian, a history drafter.</div>
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He believed that every coin had it's story,</div>
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Which he'd patiently listen to in all its glory.</div>
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And coins taught him a lot about history,</div>
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About the things that'd remained a mystery.</div>
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About emperors, epic battles and noble men,</div>
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And common day things every now and then.</div>
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About financial and political conditions,</div>
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All told by the coins and their compositions.</div>
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So, as the world moved on and time flew by,</div>
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He ever sat there, with a coin to meet his eye.</div>
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The idea for this poem actually came from a dream I had a few days back! Never let your dreams die! Transform them into reality! If not, go to the cave of lost dreams! Haha I've left the riddle up to you people to solve!</div>
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As a matter of fact, take a look at these coins. They are basically Spanish coins. But, they are stunning!! Their beauty has literally held together my poem!</div>
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An eerie night,</div>
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A gallant knight.</div>
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Sat with his horse by a fire,</div>
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And in his lap he had a sword,</div>
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The one that he deeply adored.</div>
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He sat there, polishing it,</div>
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Up and down, bit by bit.</div>
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He then ran a finger across its blade,</div>
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All enemy weapons it'd outweighed.</div>
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And as in it he saw his own reflection,</div>
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Of all his wars he had a faint recollection.</div>
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Riding his dauntless horse,</div>
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And the armour he'd endorse,</div>
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All they would see was a flash of light,</div>
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Of the gleaming sword and its knight.</div>
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As he glided over the battlefields,</div>
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Ripping through armours and shields.</div>
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All hail the valiant knight they'd say,</div>
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And would leave their fears at bay.</div>
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But now he'd grown old,</div>
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This knight once so bold.</div>
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And so did his arrogance and pride,</div>
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It had now stretched far and wide.</div>
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He then held out his sword upright,</div>
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And let it bathe in the moonlight.</div>
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It emitted a glistening white glow,</div>
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Lightening up the ground below.</div>
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He felt superior to everything he knew,</div>
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And his pride in himself perilously grew. </div>
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Suddenly, lightening struck the sword he bore,</div>
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And that once gallant knight was there no more.</div>
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"Ah! I see it's the scroll you seek",</div>
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"Enchanted by the cave's mystique".</div>
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"The scroll has only twice been previously opened.",</div>
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"Well I must have deserved it" the prince reckoned."</div>
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The prince reached out and took the scroll,</div>
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As himself, he could no longer control.</div>
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The old man retreated, yet said nothing,</div>
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His strange manner indicated something.</div>
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Finally he spoke, his manner grave, voice commanding,</div>
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The prince wondered what would he now be demanding?</div>
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"People have killed, been killed for the cave."</div>
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"And it's secret lies beyond the scroll I gave."</div>
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"Even so, what makes ye think ye'll find it?"</div>
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In ominous silence he stood, facing the twit.</div>
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"It invokes not in men mere curiosity.",</div>
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The prince could now visualise in his head,</div>
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Blood being shed and entire armies dead.</div>
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He looked at the scroll, expressions grim,</div>
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Took a deep breath, handed it back to him.</div>
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The prince was nihilistic all over again,</div>
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The cave was indeed far beyond his domain.</div>
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He had finally looked forward to something,</div>
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But all his elation was chipped down to nothing.</div>
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Then for the first time in a while the old man smiled,</div>
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His expressions returned back to being soft and mild.</div>
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"Noble prince is thy dream this short lived?"</div>
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"That ye won't get up once you've tripped?"</div>
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"But would reaching the cave do me any good?",</div>
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"For it's a place of beauty, nothing else I've understood."</div>
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"My father's kingdom stretches far and wide.",</div>
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"The cave of lost dreams.." The old man began,</div>
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As if it were all a part of some master plan.</div>
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"The cave of lost dreams or as it is said,"</div>
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"But what's in it for me, the prince bluntly enquired",</div>
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"It holds all that thou heart once deeply desired."</div>
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"Happiness ye shall find of all sorts and kind",</div>
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"Wasn't that what thou were dying to find!?"</div>
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And yet again the old man's mystical ways,</div>
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Left the prince aghast, without a phrase.</div>
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The old man handed him back the scroll,</div>
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"Ye are now fit enough to pursue thou goal."</div>
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He turned to the door to depart at last,</div>
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"Who are you?" The prince suddenly asked.</div>
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The old man halted, his hand on the doorknob,</div>
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The prince's heart started to violently throb.</div>
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He turned around wearing a strange smile,</div>
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That sent a chill down his spine for a while.</div>
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"I'm the guardian of the cave I just told you,"</div>
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The prince went back and sat on his bed,</div>
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He then opened the scroll after all,</div>
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Which hath never failed to enthrall.</div>
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What he saw of it eluded him,</div>
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For it was a riddle like none he had seen,</div>
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Cause solving it had now become his whim.</div>
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<b>The Cave of Lost Dreams</b></h2>
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This story should particularly interest you,</div>
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Cause it has to it a rare and a mystical hue.</div>
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It's a story unlike anything you've previously read,</div>
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Of a noble prince, warm at heart and cool at head.</div>
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A young man he was, full of hope and means,</div>
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He had everything that the heart could desire,</div>
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From horses and servants to the best of attire.</div>
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Yet had nothing to wake up to every morn,</div>
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And would often wonder "why was I born"?</div>
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And yet he was a man most kind and just,</div>
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In all of land well known for his trust.</div>
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And thus, everyday the prince would set out,</div>
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In quest of some exotic dream, full of doubt.</div>
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And he'd ask his people: what were theirs,</div>
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They'd turn up to be for him, petty wares.</div>
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Ever so unmotivated, yet he treaded on,</div>
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And would be gone from dusk to dawn.</div>
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But one day, illness caught him at bay,</div>
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Retiring him to bed, all sore and gray.</div>
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Finest doctors in all of land were called up,</div>
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But none could get him on his feet, back up.</div>
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They'd say he'd drunk from the death cup,</div>
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And long ago on his life he had given up.</div>
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The king, sent for the wisest man he knew,</div>
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As more worried and enraged he grew.</div>
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With an air of humility the old man turned up,</div>
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With a flowing white beard and face cheered up.</div>
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His face was illuminated with a brilliant white glow,</div>
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Peace upon the king and his family he'd come to bestow.</div>
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He then gently moved in into the prince's room,</div>
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He took a plush chair by the prince's bed,</div>
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"Dear prince, how hast thou fallen so low?"</div>
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Then replied the prince, his voice soft, words slow.</div>
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"Death for me is a peaceful retreat",</div>
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"My Lord has been to my to entirely merciful",</div>
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"But I'm afraid myself together, I cannot pull".</div>
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"So what's thy last wish?" Enquired the old man,</div>
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"Narrate to me a story for you are a wise man."</div>
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The old man's eyes gleamed in excitement,</div>
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"I shall narrate to thy a beautiful narrative",</div>
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There's a cave he said." Aye a cave like none other."</div>
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And what is it called inquired the latter,</div>
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"The cave of lost dreams. Of dreams that'd shatter'd."</div>
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The prince had been mystified, sat bolt upright,</div>
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"In a remote corner of this busy world",</div>
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"Explorers from all over the world it draws".</div>
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"Noble prince thy must first be patient",</div>
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He immediately regretted, apologized for his actions,</div>
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"The cave is a place of impeccable beauty",</div>
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His visit had an effect none could perceive.</div>
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The prince astonishingly started to get well,</div>
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To find it, his heart had made him to crave.</div>
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With books around his bed, all piled up,</div>
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Huh I couldn't find pictures that would go with the first part of the poem. Nevertheless, for the second part and the actual cave, I've come across loads of awesome pics. So, see you all next week with more from my best work till date. So long then. Ciao!</div>
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So so so sorry!! I couldn't post yesterday. This MUN thing. Anyway, Part 3!!! Last part! Done with it! Without taking any further time...... Enjoy!</div>
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A decision the father took at that instant,</div>
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Held their life expectancy along the border.</div>
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He tried to dock at the semi destroyed ship,</div>
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But that wasn’t the problem.</div>
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It was rendered swirling and in a slip,</div>
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And was drifting away from them.</div>
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He nevertheless made it,</div>
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The instinct of survival taking over.</div>
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And themselves together they started to knit,</div>
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Then realized their quest was far from over.</div>
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Without enough fuel left and no hope of survival,</div>
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They tried a shot at Edmund’s planet.</div>
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Using Gargantua’s gravity to slingshot to their point of arrival,</div>
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Losing one more crew member it meant.</div>
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The father decided that it was his time,</div>
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He had already made it this far.</div>
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He detached into the black hole in time,</div>
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Its effect pushed Dr Brand as far.</div>
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Into the darkness he plunged,</div>
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In a dimension no human ever went.</div>
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And out of his ship he lunged,</div>
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Into a dimension he had no idea what it meant.</div>
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Then suddenly he was in the little girl’s room,</div>
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Pushing books and moving shelves.</div>
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And it finally dawned to him in this hour of gloom,</div>
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That ‘ghost’, it was he himself.</div>
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It is said that gravity can travel through time,</div>
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And that was what he was gonna use.</div>
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To send a message to his daughter through time,</div>
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And give her the priceless clue.</div>
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Through which she could complete the equation of time,</div>
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She stood there motionless and still.</div>
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The hands of her dad’s clock moving in a strange line,</div>
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A Morse code that gave her the chills.</div>
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Eureka Eureka she shouted through the facility,</div>
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The equation has been solved.</div>
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And she sat down with complete tranquility,</div>
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Worked on the equation and got it evolved.</div>
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When the ex pilot opened his eyes,</div>
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On familiar earth like surroundings.</div>
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He was alive to his surprise,</div>
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But still couldn’t devise the circumstances of things.</div>
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The doctor said that he was a lucky man,</div>
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With only minutes of oxygen left in his possession.</div>
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He was also a very old man,</div>
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Having lived 126 years in succession.</div>
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He looked out of his hospital window,</div>
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Stared at a world where gravity didn’t apply.</div>
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Bewildered, asked where he was and how,</div>
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Did he reach this weird place with no sky.</div>
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It’s called the “Cooper station” the doctor said,</div>
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And amused was he for Cooper was his name.</div>
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But, it had been named after his daughter instead,</div>
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So apparently he wasn’t the one who had shot to fame.</div>
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The cooper station was currently orbiting Saturn,</div>
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But, that didn’t matter. Where was little Murph he demanded.</div>
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He was told that she was on her death bed but seeing him she yearned,</div>
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He was taken to a very old woman to whom her children tended.</div>
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He was taken aback at her sight,</div>
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An old, terribly old woman her face filled with delight.</div>
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Stretched her feeble hand outright,</div>
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They wouldn’t believe that one day with my father I’d unite.</div>
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I knew you’d come back. I knew you see,</div>
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Why? Because my dad had promised me.<br />
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So, what happened next? Well Cooper left his daughter to the company of her children and grandchildren and apparently, Edmund had died and Dr Brand was now on that planet, all set for her job. So Copper kind of sneaks out of the station and heads to Edmund's planet.<br />
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The End.</div>
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