Enter – the Thief
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Mercy is, yes mercy me, I find the battered key
Opening dreams of mysterious dances you could not see
Or touch, or feel, or understand with your mind
Speaking words that glisten as fairy-dust that flies high
SSS … S … SSS
Mercy as, to mercy be, I turn the golden key
Standing plain naked for all and hollow as the night sea
Where golden calves, darkest thoughts and deeds, all should be
This trail of rough energy sharpened like a quill knife
SSS … S … SSS
Mercy is, to mercy me, who holds this treasured key
Where life and hope and love and dreams can still be
Plaintiff as nature’s darkest night might yet surround my thought
To me, the jackdaw’s mouth brought a borrowed rainbow feather
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writtenbyedenbray22.10.2017