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A bed of stone |
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To wake upon |
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To a world long dead |
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May this sight strike me blind |
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Lest I envy the dead |
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Let my bones melt to earth |
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To cease and forget |
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In brittled cloth |
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A grave of rock |
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Above the world's remains |
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[Qorban:] |
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"I broke the surface of a lifetime of sleep, |
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Or so I felt. For minutes I couldn't will my aching bones to move, |
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To rise from my bed of stone, or my gaze to bend from the tomb of rock above me. |
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I willed my body over the edge and crushed to the floor below. |
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Through a mist of pain I started to see: I was imprisoned. |
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A forboding fright dawned in me, as I slowly struggled to free myself from my own grave. |
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It seemed my limbs would burst before I was free, |
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But finally at the very end of my strength I could see the world beyond, |
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And to my horror - It was no more!" |
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I have lost to sleep |
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Man's final days |
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Now to awake |
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Just to be tortured by grief |