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Why Do the Waves Stop?

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Why do the waves stop?
Why do they spare anything?
     They stop at the borders,
   The twilight of the land.
  They at the In Between are still and retreat.

Why should the beach stop the
                               Collapse?

      Wherefore shore,
Wherefore tude?
How has the land endured before OCean
And the Green grown, or the land died brown?
How can the Mountains stand it?
Silent Old men, they, who shudder
And remember the Deluge and the fury
     Of a High King.


Who has the voice to command it?
Who has the voice to overpower mighty Ocean?
And who, who of all men, can outroar the Ocean?
    The High King is sitting
In his hill city,
  Ruling by decrees of his own tongue
The invincible waves and indomitable tides.

Men speak of floods,
But miss the flood that never happened to them,
They arrow that was never loosed.
Believe it or not, this poem was inspired in a fit of sadness while listening to Alesana. Yes, Emo music and Genesis. That's how life should be, I suppose. Muwhahaha


Anyhow, though you're not really expected to get it, the line about roaring at the ocean is actually referring to Lord Byron and his Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Specifically, a part near the very end where he's sort of signing off, and has this one last, long, triumphant roar at the ocean which I've always loved. "Oh Ocean, How I have loved thee!" You want something that's the spirit of Good, there 'tis. Go forth and find. I PROMISE you that you will not go away from it emptyhanded at all. If only because you will leave inspired to go sailing or climb something.


Men see the bad and forget the days, long and filled with fuit, that they were given. They drop their food and lose it, and blame the heavens.
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