{THE END} by daniel fleming
would quite a man be daring enough to run away from heaven?
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growing tired of the cold, he kept to himself and dreamt of a new warmth.
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one more dream, one more night, one more away, he said to himself.
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call my name, it’s taken too long. let me venture with these.
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So eventually, he became them in mind and heart.
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keep moving up, keep going higher.
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each more and more, becoming less and less.
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taking what he loathed, becoming what he feared.
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with his last strength he rose, barely the man he was before.
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and waited and waited and waited for his lost life to take him back.
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and so for life, he took one seat before the sun, shut his eyes, and drifted away.
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but the past was real, he found. and though he desired to reverse it, a final embrace before those he became was all he could muster.
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