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Ashes to Blazes

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TheWandererNears

Published: Aug 8, 2011

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Lost in the darkness, feeling so cold
My life enfolds

Walking the path of horrors untold
I'm breaking the threshold

Kneeling before The Being of Old
He's looking for a heart of gold

In my life I've lost my foothold
I'm not one to extol

I'm now lost
And at what cost? At what cost?

A torment of the ages
I've burned all the bridges
So now I run from the infernal wretches
I can hear their voices

A torment of the ages
I breath in the ashes
As my journey ends in blazes

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I originally made this for a friend of mine. Was on my main profile. I know, for your poetry critics out there, this one is a bit sloppy.

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Ripplestar4

Aug 8, 2011

It reminds me of the importance of staying true to God's path, the one without sin. If we follow it, then we will be able to aviod this enternal toture...It's really good, and I'm not a poem critic, so I can't tell that it's sloppy...Thanks again for reminding me to avoid sin.

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