Be Still from Vermilion Pyre by Lucerne Hammer

hands on fire
broken teeth
offer it my agony
ephemeral relief

no escape
endless hurt
claiming every part of me
quenchless thirst

please be still
please be still

no control
souls bereft
by days end
nothing left

please be still
please be still

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by the stream i dream in calm delight, and watch as in a glass,
how the clouds like crowds of snowy-hued and white-robed maidens pass,
and the water into ripples breaks and sparkles as it spreads,
like a host of armored knights with silver helmets on their heads.
and i deem the stream an emblem fit of human life may go,
for i find a mind may sparkle much and yet but shallows show,
and a soul may glow with myriad lights and wondrous mysteries,
when it only lies a dormant thing and mirrors what it sees.

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