~The Fool's Muse~ |
Dream of a Child
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So dark, so many shadows. I flee desperately down streets I once knew, beasts in the dark striking out at me. I flit from place to place, my feet not always touching the ground I see a large old house ahead, and fly up off the pavement and land upon its roof I strive to find an open window, but suddenly I am inside, like magic I crouch behind a sofa, a silky red dress curled around me my perceptions are altered, here I cannot speak, but I care not I am such innocence, that a small child finds me and feeds me breakfast A man mutters briefly about my muted state, but I know better than he. I stare into a mirror, and the face of a little girl looks back at me, yet the eyes betray an eternal wisdom. I have all the power in the world, but I'm too fragile to know... |
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