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This place is no longer

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for me. Walk. Must walk.

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Walk ’til me and Morningstar

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are one. Turn my back

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on the east—brothers, sisters,

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uncles, aunts—the whole

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shuffling tribe walking the same

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thoughtless circles again

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and again, never more

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than a hundred steps

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from fishing shores slipping

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into ice-blue underworld.

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Some say I’ve gone mad,

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leaving the huddle

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of warm bodies in a polar

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blizzard slicing slantways

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at the coat of many layers

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we dreamed out of storms.

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Some call me terminally

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depressed. Others, that I was

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always an oddball—lost

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in some outer orbit, face

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pushing into the gale.

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Some just don’t care.

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I wonder now if I do anymore,

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as each step eases the path

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that pulls me toward

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the mountains—a kingdom

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sharp with ice and rock

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that suddenly calls and calls,

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and all I can do is follow,

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follow my feet, let fool’s silver

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of snow dazzle my eyes,

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numb my heart, swim away

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my fear, melt me into white

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as it walks ahead—ever,

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ever in the distance.

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