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    A FADE INTO OBLIVION

    Fade

    I sit today warmed by the memory 

    of your smile

    and in remorse remembering my 

    voluntary exile from your love sweet

    my mother had never heard her son 

    truly recite

    doesnt know the depths of pain 

    I enter 2 write

    the migraines

    the shame

    the blame

    the stain 

    upon my soul i feebly attempt

    2 explain

    in verse

    the curse

    and audible curses aimed at the spirits

    many know dgreaves the poet

    if only through the snippets of my soul

    I expose

    yet no one truly knows

    the man

    born and shaped by volcanic sand

    ready 2 erupt after years of being dormant

    and so

    I walked away from you in the infancy 

    of a promising future

    2 protect you from my past

    under such duress

    we couldnt hope 2 last

    or prosper

    and the oscar 

    goes 2

    me

    the dee 

    I could not 4 the sake of you

    allow you 2 see

    many

    wonder 

    few know

    tone knew

    was his self inflicted demise

    due  2 

    my refusal of friendship

    in his most troubled hour

    I dont know

    yet my stomach is sour

    when i recall the chronology of events

    ive spent 

    so much time within myself

    I see the world through

    a myopic vision

    I love and yet refuse love

    I give and am loathe 2 receive

    I take nothing and 

    out of life and love

    expect nothing

    and yet 

    curiously 

    I feel free

    free of imagined reality

    free of the worlds testimony

    free of dreams that curse me 

    with hope and promise

    my mother weeps 4 me she says

    blames herself i know 4 what

    I have come 2 beI

    I tell her no

    the very second i decided 2 be a man

    my destiny 

    or lack thereof  was in my hands

    this is my plan

    as I fade into oblivion

    the son of volcanic sand

    my ears have been much 2 accute

    2 reverberations of implied threats

    so I

    in my fury 

    make them real

    I need 2 feel

    my blood boil

    and erupt through the corpustles

    in my troubled head

    saturating the soil

    my soul brother asked 

    why do i write so prolific

    so darn much

    he said it is as if i am running out of time

    nah brah

    time is up

    has been 33 years

    since i first learned that tears

    falling from a man

    born of volcanic sand

    is not release

    but feeds the beast 

    of my burden

    for certain

    the quill has been both blessing and curse

    4 every verse 

    is a snapshot i submit

    4 public 

    perception

    why is the question

    my life has never been mine

    until now

    a baby of barbados

    a child of dysfunction

    a teen

    in the mean 

    streets

    an adult eloquent 

    yet incomplete

    and now

    a revolutionary in voluntary exile

    from love

    from feeling

    from emotion

    from devotion

    from life

    as michael jackson once sang

    like a comet 

    blazing cross the evening sky

    gone 2 soon

    but i am still alive

    or am I

    another question 2 ponder

    as i fade into oblivion

    comfrotable  am I

    that finally

    the choice was mine

    and mine alone

     

    lyrics  to gone too soon

    by michael jackson

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    • 4 February 2011
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