Whilst at the Portal of the Abyss

Wispful Poetry
from emptycloud
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Whilst at the Portal of the Abyss
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Portals penetrate
open and separate
exit or enclose
Enter to escape
through and beyond
the side you suppose
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Portals are dead and somewhat blind to you and me
No one has yet tread through the Temporal Sea

To see what could be waving in the eyes of aliens
Dream as gazing through an inter-dimensional lens

Offering a convenient escape from our fears and pain
Whether fiction or fact portals hypothetically remain
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Time and space without such a window
Is much like a wasp that has lost a wing
A destiny grounded with a hopeless ring
Loosing its potential for any future flight
With no escape from whatever be the case
Like a life trapped in time without a space
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Portals perpetually peep
weathered and worn
Cracked and forlorn
they join two as if one
One and the same
held in shuttered refrain
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Windows welcome distant whispers within
While walls withhold foul weather with out
Outside is the rain inside the insane game
Portals offer instant escape from the pain
Rising and falling of fate can quickly exchange
Some hope for rescue from what we can't explain
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Passing through time to distant worlds we race
Imagining our private vortex of common space
Revealing...concealing... transcending mass
Into expressions of unique and distant tasks
Transmitting our mystified conscience afar
We pray to penetrate these portals to stars
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all rights dissolve emptycloud 10/31/2009