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Title: Stolen Lines (#4009)
Author: ElennaElemirre
Chapters: 1

Archive: Doctor Who
Category: Prose
Description: A poem for the wanderers in the Doctor Who fandom. You could also read it from a Companion's point of the view or Ten if it comes to that.
Published: 19 Feb 2009
Updated: 19 Feb 2009
Warnings: none
Type: General
Characters:


Chapter 1 - Stolen Lines

I stand in the silence
the Silence in the Library
and looking out towards the stars
there stands the city of the diamond skies
the crossroads pressing in
on every side
Not knowing whether I should Turn Left
or maybe I should turn right
doesn't matter
It is Midnight

And that path that runs itself
through the Forest of the Dead
with a signing
42 upon the River's head
A Song
for the lonely god

And lingering on this
Stolen Earth
A Rose upon the heather gray
a bittersweet Parting of the Ways
where the Bad Wolf comes to smile and play

Come and breathe the applegrass
that stretch itself like lazy cats
on my New Earth
it is only Human Nature
to long for Utopia

Just a Long Game
for the Empty Child
that dances on Father's Day
and winding his way like some sprite
or fey
guided by the Idiot's Lantern
towards his own
Doomsday

A voice that whispers
Fear Her
hissing like an Army
of Ghosts
marching to the Sound of Drums
thundering in the void
that blots out the Poison Sky

But what are Love & Monsters
to me
if I could wait an eternity
if I could step through
the Fireplace
out of the pages of my own
book

and following that murmuring
a firm command to
Run
to the beat that is
the sound of the universe
I dare not look back
or stray away
or even
Blink
until I collide a timeline away
into my
Journey's End

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