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   mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > > Shattered   
   > >   
   > > The seconds have piled up   
   > > at the floor   
   > > lost here in some other guy's past   
   > > lying there   
   > > with your seconds piled   
   > > there went by a life   
   > > untold   
   > > unasked   
   > > going by   
   > > never caused and never traced   
   > > the future never ever appears here.   
   > >   
   > > If some morning I wake   
   > > here for you   
   > > trying to find some reason to return   
   > > if I see things denied   
   > > I once defined   
   > > a life just passed me by there   
   > > slipped through my fingers   
   > > everything here now is real   
   > > so wait.   
   > > That portion of the finish   
   > > never comes.   
   > >   
   > > Now that the lights are going so low   
   > > the dimming glow   
   > > falls on my ego   
   > > now that I'm falling   
   > > into my morning   
   > > here I am gazing into those   
   > > reflector eyes   
   > > morning light   
   > > is blasting my head clean too.   
   > > Morning's clearer   
   > > I've been forgetting it.   
   > >   
   > > Your thoughts seem to stream   
   > > like a highway   
   > > dimming lights seem to streak   
   > > like hitch-hikers.   
   > > When does this dream end?   
   > > When do I get on up the road?   
   > > The light sped out   
   > > like a fire-fly   
   > > like gravestones   
   > > never noticed   
   > > never seen.   
   > > Like marbles   
   > > spilling from shattered minds.   
   > >   
   > > -Will Dockery / August 20 1976   
   > >   
   > > ***   
   > > (Published March 1977 in the Carverlite, the Carver High School   
   > > newspaper, Columbus Georgia)   
   > >   
   > > From:   
   > > https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2023/09/shattered.html?m=1   
   >   
   >   
   > Thanks for sharing   
      
   Thanks again for reading and commenting.   
      
   🙂   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=683649581#683649581   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
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