Arise, awake from dreamer’s slumber
What ails you as you lie too long beneath the stars
A ready world awaiting your contribution
Keening its lament at your absence
Even now hopeful you will come
Never yet believing you would resist
Ere long, diminished days and nights will call
Voices drawing home to sleep forever yonder
Overcome suspended animation and
Live as only beating hearts know how
Vying for the marrow in your core
Ever evolving
Changing, yes, before widened eyes
Healing what was once the fatal wound of conflict
Altering the course and meaning of time’s
Nuanced reckonings through fleeting passage
Graduating by mercurial turns to its crescendo
Ever beautiful in vitality as still it calls, come
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