By Starbright
Date: 2001 Oct 28
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[[2001.10.28.04.13.13483]]

Of Cabages and Kings

Hollow of emotion for all has long since fled,
too many years of loneliness have dried this water shed.
Dreams turned dust then blew away
with wounded winds of yesterday
and yet... or maybe because of this
women chose to exclude me from their games,
talk with me honest, from their hearts,
feed me well, lead me to bed.
With night closed in
naked arm in arm
they whisper to me of hopes, fears
tell me their dreams...
All this my hollowness absorbs
and as they sleep i lie awake
filled yet so very empty
for i know upon awake to day
their fear always re-asserts itself
as they suddenly realize
to me they have given far to much
to ever feel human again.
In a far corner of my mind lies
an armor covered in dust
once so shiny,
once so very shiny.