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Audio and Video Music:
End of Time.
By Ugonna Onyekwe.
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Illustration Credit: AI
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
Voices of the dead are all around
me.
Everyone alive seems much less real.
The smoke and screams and bombs and blood surround
me,
Enduring through the love I still can't feel.
Reality is rarely in the present
As truth and falsehood are defined by pain.
Nor can I stand one moment that is pleasant.
Sanity to me just seems insane.
Death is more attractive than a wife,
And loneliness a far less lonely life.
Yet I must turn and somehow live
again.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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