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Echo of a Bullet
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Xnoybis
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Saturday, 22nd January 2005 @ 04:43:36 AM in AEST
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Turn your back,
Ye old gunslinger
For it is what you do best
Leave those you left behind
to slumber in your own mind.
Grow cold, and colder still
Keep growing colder, until
One day that you'll find
that they are awake still
still awake in your mind.
And fathom
One thing, for one moment
Beyond what you are
and what all else is
to where all is but atom
Or Adam?
What is the difference
Where worlds collide
Would you rather walk by yourself,
Or next to yourself, side by side?
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Xnoybis
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2005-01-22 04:43:36]
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Re: Echo of a Bullet
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by Former_Member on
Sunday, 23rd January 2005 @ 10:03:24 AM AEST
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The last line was a bit too esoteric for me, but I guess that this poem is yours alone to interpret.
Interesting.
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Re: Echo of a Bullet
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by Xnoybis on
Thursday, 27th January 2005 @ 02:14:15 AM AEST
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Sorry Neptunes, I should have stated that this was inspired by Stephen King's Dark Tower series, which was in turn, inspired by Robert Brownings poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".
The last line is in reference to a point in the story where Roland (aka the gunslinger), the main char, suffers a mental divide that almost drives him mad. This mental divide was caused, in part, by a moral decision he had made earlier in the story. He let a young boy fall to his Death in order to chase his destiny. Later in the story, he goes back in time in a fashion, and saves the boy in another world, which was a necessary precursor to him meeting him in the first place in his own world, and that created the mental divide. It was described as two different parts of him standing face to face and arguing back and forth which version was real, because in a sense, they both were..hence the side by side. I think that's why the rhyme of it is so off kilter too..kind of an extension of the madness.
I hope that clears it up some. Also, I must say, I was quite intoxicated at the time I wrote this and I'm not sure the "clarity" I saw in it then was exactly translated over (haha). It's pretty close though, I think, considering. Either way, at the time, I just sat down to write *something*, and that was what came out (probably b/c a day or two before I had just sat down and read the second volume in the series straight through, so my mind was filled with it).
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