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The future sits just off the coast

A glaring flash of light

Waves that had been consuming our shore

Now ease back gently into the sea

A crowd stands enrapt and unable to turn away

How hard it must be to deny hope

But I can’t help myself—I must look away

To the snow which first hid our glimmer

A future’s been set in strange new alloys

Set into bodies floating in the sky

Parts moving forwards; parts moving back

That wish to ensure our fate

A frail soul, like the world, destined to end too soon

A calamitous lack of providence

Tears run on both sides of time

I shared the frail body and we shared the world

I shared the weight of the world’s surrender

Bore burdens across time and mind

A future’s been set in strange new alloys

Set into bodies in the sky

Great minds that thought much too alike

Now wish to ensure our fate

A soul made frail by the world

A soul made frail by the cold

With so little time, left alone

They gave warmth to the world

All our pain inextricably linked

Threaded together and woven fine

A future’s been changed beneath the snow

Set into frozen hands clinging to hope

Young hands who gave up too much too soon

For a world that could not give them warmth

A future’s been changed beneath the snow

A cruel and quiet sacrifice