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Our Boat


They made it fun

Everybody had fun
They had hopes
They wanted to see
The hope in me grow

It did
I could feel it
But it was stopped
I didn’t stop it
I didn’t want that either

But that was meant to be

Was there something else?
Something else to look at?
Name! There was nothing
Nothingness was
The substitute

I was not alone
Never alone

It was a boat
The bloody water was choppy

We knew our fate
We had faith in our fate
The fateful fate

It thought it could hide
It didn’t hide

In our nothingness
We tried to give it a meaning
But many were busy with hunger

Then we all were kept busy
By him

Him, we know
We had another name
Always friendly
But nobody needed the friendship
Nobody wanted

But it was be ours

It arrived early
Sometimes too early
We had no time to wonder
We were doomed
To be his

We made him
We grew out of us
He outgrew is
We reckoned we could slay
Instead he slew us

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