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what shattered belfry

what shattered belfry 
tolls the awful gallantry 
of chocolate soldiers

what is more lofty 
than for a hundred men to 
march forward to death

grace accomplishes 
what the ego cannot do 
potent alchemy

time is what prevents
everything from happening
everywhere at once

what if the grammar
constraining love and joy were
indeterminate

my seventeenth draft
reads like i knew what i was
doing all along

what if the reward
for choosing love over joy
were often neither

today is the day
we find out just what kind of
man i really am

if i want the things 
you do not have then i must 
do what you will not

what word would they speak
if i could hear ten thousand
voices all at once