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Symbols


The Symbol of absolute freedom The Symbol of total falsity The perfectly measured out blocks of wood conjoined in the high center of one and the dead center of another. Nailed together in the epicenter to form a shape known to all Known to all Believed by some Forgotten by many A symbol of grim endings A symbol of fresh creation For years it stood on the hill the rays of the ever brightening sun leaking through the growing cracks of the aging timber A sight that can be described by pure and utter beauty To the minds of those that know it, believe it and forgotten it the sight of brute pain, engulfing anguish, and crippling lies Knowing that this was the site that was meant to forgive you Knowing that this is the place where you should turn from it This is the place where you see you have fallen to sin Fallen in Fallen into the world that surrounds your darkening brain as it fills itself up with the pleasures that you tried for years to keep out As it brings itself to the cave that you though was demolished Your knees are green and damp mimicking the current state of your face Your body is the rain cloud for the patch of grass and dirt the stands just before the wooden vessel of realizations The soil that fills your hands below you seems as though it is in the wrong place Sky You Dirt You feel the order is wrong You want to switch the order to make more sense To make it resemble where you feel you should be But that’s not how it should be That’s now he wants it to be This symbol of Grace This Symbol of Forgiveness This Symbol of Joy Peace Unending Love Was meant to raise you up like the one that once rested upon its splintered glory Get up!
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