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Could-Have-Been King

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Published: Jul 17, 2010

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^{This was my world.

The sun used to set in the in the east,
And the second sun would rise in the west.
It would shine,
It would sparkle,
Like a million white stars at night.
The silver moon would create the most perfect illusion,
The greatest quicksilver lake,
As the blossoms swayed in an eclipse breeze.
The red grass would crunch beneath our feet,
As everyone ran ignorantly through the endless fields.

This was my world.

Until it died in a burning fire of rage and misery.
Until it cried throughout the universe.
Until the shouts rang so clear in my head that I tore my eardrums out.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
And the bomb went tick tock.
And the clock went stop.
Until the nightmare ended,
And a little part of me died.

This could have been my world.

All blissful and happy.
Married forever,
'til death do us part.
Friends all around me,
Enemies that I would redeem.

This could have been my world,
Until I ended it.

This is my world.
The misery and the guilt,
The hole they left,
And all the pain that filled it.
The day it burned was the day I burned with it.
The day they died was the day a little part of me died with them.
And the day they cried,
The day they screamed,
Was the day I lost my soul.

Something could have been my world,
Something could have been my future,
The could-have been with the never-weres and the meanwhiles.
Something could have been,
But now I'll never know.}