the Offering

 the Offering
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Laly, I just needed one more verse

I was a verse short when you left
you fell off this poem
oblivious to the lines
the ticking of time
the misplaced stepping stones
or deducing the crux of the rhymes
leaving me unfinished.

I, alone here, guarded the stanzas
from smoke, negative verses from ashes of time
on the ruins & landscapes of your reputation,
I had it on the reserved loop mode
clearing paths for memories
to flow back & forth
that might lead you back
when you picked another stream

laly
I promised myself that, I will last forever with you
with a poem for those after us to remember
a definition of how to break a heart

you offered to martyr me
at the pinnacle of my devotion to you,
to go out on top,
but I declined,
I was a fertile crescent,
I had more dedication,
to pave a path
to our now-ruined penthouse,
to accommodate you
one more night.

I should've taken the offer
but I was a fool
I should have known
I would've been done with,
but I preferred to attend to you
rub & wash your feet,
chant to you verses
something similar to godliness
as a sacrament ritual  

It must have been tiring
walking around my mind
searching for secrets you've created.

now I grant myself immortality
without you
next to the poems I've wrote
to be buried together
a testimony of my greed
a resurrected statue
in Gardens of Stone

Even though you had fallen off my poems
leaving the epitome unfinished
I could've propelled you into legacy
with one more verse,

now you have to start all over
from the bottom with someone else.
And I, at the top with no one

an open end of a poem that will stay unfinished
as a wound till the end of time
had you waited a little longer
it would've been up there
a chapter in the lord's Good book
dedicated to you, my love.
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Feb 18, 2023
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lyrics & vocals: azdi404
music credit: Remembrance by Balmorhea    @BalmorheaMusic