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You’re listening to Poetry Month on The Voice of Dog.
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This is Rob MacWolf, your fellow traveler, and Today we present a poem by Akronia, who writes
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lyric poems,
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typically in a free verse style.
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He often writes on topics such as mental health,
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or the challenge of living with a mental disorder,
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and you can find more of his poetry on FurAffinity.
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Please enjoy “A Failed Reality”,
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a poem by Akronia
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Interstellar dimensions
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cross linked into a parallax
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Swift chambers slump into an ill-fated oblivion
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Fragmented abyss of a pain
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cornered and tortured
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It all comes together,
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In an exhalated thrall
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A split, gashed alien
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was once native here
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Its land was claimed and saw his deportation
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Uncaring hermits stared pale and numb
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An Ingenious plan to divorce his very soul,
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they exclaimed What was left of the soul of the widowed
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you may ask? A world with so many parts integrated, yet so divided
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Refused into absolution with no rhyme or purpose
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Yet only those deemed useful can accompany me into my plan.
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My reality has failed me,
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so I will look unto another one
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An escape that never saw the light of day
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Your reality has succeeded in destroying my own
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It was a just cause in your eyes,
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but a bittersweet curse for myself.
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This land is of a toxic nature,
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it splits the delusions
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Its racing phases an omen to Io,
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impregnated with madness it seems
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Yet this is the path that I alone just walk upon
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It is this land that opens mercilessly
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onto my parallel frame.
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This was “A Failed Reality”
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by Akronia, read for you by READER, with CALLSIGN.
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Thank you for listening
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to Poetry Month on The Voice
