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The lantern
My daddy always held the lantern to the dark
to reveal that there wasn't a threat just the trees that rose high up into the heavens
He showed me the night sky and pointed to orion
He told me to be brave
when the howling started in the night he brought out the lantern like always
To show the wolves that came only for scraps not me
We traversed the road braving forward into the unknown
Fear not the night he told me
But I feared it more then anything
I feared the horrors that were not there
The things that lurked at the back of my mind
But it was not those that took my daddy
It was pestilence
He left me with one phrase
The darkest road you're going to face is your mind
his chest stop lifting up in down in its erratic pattern
Now alone in the forest
I can hear the wolves, I can see the shapes of things that aren't there
But I brave onward into the unknown
uncertain of what was waiting in the deep dark.
but I do as my daddy told me
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