Drumbeat

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Rhythmic drumbeat grows louder

As I awaken with a start

Awareness gradually trickling in

Drumming is coming from my heart

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 Memories flooding back

Tender moments caught in time

Drumbeats and heartbeats mingling

Intensifying into sublime

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 It’s all gone now

Except this one solitary beat

Pounding relentlessly inside my chest

As I lay under the silky sheet

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I imagine a world without you

Then suddenly realize I’m in it

No more love, no more laughter or joy

Just an emptiness that sees no limit

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Again the drumbeat reminds me

To rise up and get on with my day

For ultimately it will be silenced

When I quietly depart the stony gray