Xadrik


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    Worth (1989/2009. 20 Year Later Edit) by Xadrik

    Glancing left I see ashes; behold right I view stone.
    The winds of destruction in this scene have blown.
    Fields ploughed with salt so no seed may be grown.
    The Motherland’s banner is burned …

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    Forgiveness Without Recompense is Retrospective Approval ... by Xadrik

    I am certainly not a man to be crossed.

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    Nothing is Random by Xadrik

    Nothing is Random

    I’ve said it before,
    I know that it’s true.
    It is painfully apparent
    in almost all that I do.

    Nothing is Random.
    Nothing is Random.
    Nothing is Random.

    We enjoy…

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    It Is Better That You Know This by Xadrik

    It is Better to be Honest than Loyal.
    It is Better to be Loyal than Legendary.
    It is Better to be Legendary than Heroic.
    It is Better to be Heroic than Noble.
    _It is Better to be No…

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    Ahtnamas by Xadrik

    Ahtnamas

    The only jewel that shone in the night,
    I bit her lip and bathed an the light.
    The swarm heckled & howled me down
    As I dug my feet into hallowed ground.

    Flowers sprang from th…

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    LIVED EHT TON MA I by Xadrik

    Where there were none before, there I was.
    Where there were many, I was a lot.
    When we were there together, I heeded not.
    I was NEVER whom you said that I was.

    Where the innocent fell, I …

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    We Were Only Thirteen (An Inverse Retrospective) by Xadrik

    Hanoi lined the culvert as we marched into the green.
    Speakers echoed loudly for the spectacled and mean.
    I see myself, with my AK, Black P.J.s in the stream.
    God help us: We were only Thirteen.

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    I Will Only Be Gone For A While by Xadrik

    I Will Only Be Gone For A While

    I will only be gone for a while,
    I will coming back to see you smile.

    I will only be gone for a while.
    You will see me in the eyes of a child.
    With a he…

    244 words

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    IN ISOLATION by Xadrik

    In isolation you will find yourself.
    In isolation you can only trust one..
    In the process of sorting, demons cavorting.
    In the times after, there are left over shards.
    Step around and find …

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    Lou Said “Dream” by Xadrik

    When I was much younger
    and stronger and placid.
    Before the masses
    of tiny squares of acid.
    I knew where I was
    and what I wanted.
    I wanted you.
    The Lucid knights
    around the bar.
    S…

    405 words

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    A Minstrel by Xadrik

    A Minstrel in robes of velvet and leather
    a wood fashioned fife wields.
    He wanders through the valleys tender,
    over the naked fields.

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    Destiny. by Xadrik

    Once it has happened: It was destiny
    and none of us is truly free
    in what we feel and what we see
    or what it is we are to be.

    Once it has happened: It was destiny.
    What you saw and what …

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    777 by Xadrik

    In the day that has no end
    for the master and his friend;
    for the shepherd without sheep
    in the darkness of the day.

    You will be forever sallow
    in the hearts of all the pigs.
    In the nig…

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    Scratched and Chipped by Xadrik

    I was playing marbles with my mind
    & my friends in the park;
    but the game went much too long after dark..
    And we settled in for the rise of the sun,
    the game for a time was so much less th…

    205 words

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    11.10 by Xadrik

    Did anyone ever factor in
    The fact that they were ready: Prepared.
    With quills, expressions filled with glee.
    At about ten thirty three.

    To end the war, that ended the world.
    The world a…

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    6 Words... by Xadrik

    Secretly: "The Secret Lies in Secrecy."

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    *Friendly Fire Incident"* by Xadrik

    "Zero-Alpha, Repeat…Over."
    "What did…!"

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    9 1/2 Words by Xadrik

    It’s Lonely to be Alone with what you Own.

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    On the Bus (C) by Xadrik

    The Longest Night Ever
    you slept through my friend.
    Unable to sever your
    alms in the end.

    What happened to you
    No one could say.
    We were all in denial
    It-couldn’t end this way?

    Un…

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    Advance Party (Aggressive Allegro) by Xadrik

    Three we’ll send;
    until the end.
    That should suffice
    for good advice
    and all we need.
    We shall succeed!

    Within your grin
    of pain and lust.
    If not in us;
    then in whom
    do you trust?…

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