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Title: audio Atop A Wall
Author: Codey Narrator: Blue Ben W.
Kind: Poem Type: MP3 Time: 00:03:04 Size: 4.21 MB

Atop A Wall

a poem by Codey

  1. I once stood atop a wall
  2. then the falling, the shifting realities
  3. feeling lost, my world turned upside down
  4. seeking a safe port midst swirling storms
  5. a new world born at the death of the old
  6. alone in the chaos, I've nowhere to run
  7. wandering through clouding mists
  8. battling shifting shades
  9. seeking a new reality in an unreal world
  10. glimpsing fleeting flashes of hope
  11. grasping for those illusive flashes
  12. absorbing new loves and strengths
  13.  
  14. I remember the life atop that wall
  15. the wall once a pathway to my future
  16. now an obstacle
  17. blocking me
  18. trapping me
  19. holding me
  20. in a bitter web of dreams
  21. surrounded by shards
  22. shattered pieces of my past
  23.  
  24. through a crack
  25. I hear
  26. laughing children with glad voices
  27. I see
  28. playing children with smiling faces
  29. I feel
  30. the warmth of a new happiness
  31. denied me by unwanted memories
  32.  
  33. Arms upraised
  34. stretching
  35. reaching
  36. seeking
  37. a niche
  38. a finger hold of stability
  39. a place of rest and rebuilding
  40. emotions rampant
  41. uncontrolled
  42. uncontrollable
  43. yet controlling
  44. fed by simmering rage
  45. hidden
  46. insidious
  47. threatening my tenuous finger hold
  48.  
  49.  
  50. Inching
  51. forward and upward
  52. rescaling the wall
  53. attempting to reclaim my rightful place
  54. frustrated at the pace
  55. angered at regressions and mis-steps
  56. but with progress
  57. encouraged
  58. by love freely given
  59. and strengths gladly shared
  60.  
  61. What awaits me atop the wall?
  62. What new world will I find?
  63. A mosaic?
  64. Formed with shards and pieces?
  65. What replaces the unsalvageable?
  66. A world no better but no worse?
  67. A world no happier but no less happy?
  68. What was the purpose?
  69. What was it all about?