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<h1>Blackened Dust</h1>
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It is entirely unassuming<br />
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The heap of blackened dust sits ever-silent in the vase
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The urge to blow it into a thin mist of ash up in the air arises<br />
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I press it into the back of my skull
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<p>...</p>
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<p>The silence from it scares me</p>
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He was never silent<br />
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Never silent until now<br />
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He never had so little passion<br />
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Never so little until now<br />
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He never stopped enriching our lives<br />
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Never stopped until now
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A rebellious child when rebelling against house rules makes for a
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stressed mother<br />
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When it's against the empire, it makes for a broken one
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He knew he would get himself killed<br />
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He knew the whole way through<br />
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He knew it until he knew it firsthand
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<p>He died knowing it</p>
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I feel him comforting me: the ash smiles a sad smile to me<br />
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The ash sighs a soft sigh to me<br />
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The ash loves a soft love for me
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I am beyond too old to continue what he started.<br />
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My little body cannot hold his anger<br />
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My bones too broken and too shrivelled to carry his weight<br />
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I stand hunched and too short to fly his flag
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<p>  However</p>
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The young who surround me, their hands on my shoulders, their eyes on my
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son in my hands.<br />
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They are filled with his anger.<br />
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Their bones are bolstered with his immense strength.<br />
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They stand tall, bold and ready to fly his flag.
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And in that moment I know the change my boy has brought.<br />
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My boy sits in his vase and knows it too.
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