I've been down this road before
But it seems so different now
It's become a grand reward
In the awesome distant now
Oft would I beat on heaven's door
From below the chutes of Hell
But on this day a something more
In the daily tale to tell
Redeems the lost but lovely things
That haunted my belief
Restores the reckoning
Of a promised long release
Where I am free between the lines
To give myself to me;
Living by the rhyme
Flattened by the reasoning
Appeasing it peacefully.

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