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FAUX ETERNITY
(I'm feeling FAUX ETERNITY)
FAUX ETERNITY
BY JAMES A. GALGANO
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ONCE THERE WAS A DREAM
FROM WHICH WE NEVER WANTED TO WAKE
IT WAS FILLED WITH HAPPINESS AND LOVE
THAT WAS TRUE AND NEVER CAUSE HEARTBREAK
IT WOULD FILL OUR SOULS AND HEARTS WITH ETERNAL SMILE
IN A LAND AND LIFE WHERE
WE WOULD CARE DEEPLY FOR EACH OTHER ALL THE WHILE
YET WHO WERE WE TO THINK SUCH A LOVE WOULD LAST
AND LIKE A RISING SUN BEGIN TO SET AS FAST
BENEATH THE HORIZON OF A LOVE THAT COULD NEVER BE
JUST BEYOND THE VIEW OF A FAUX ETERNITY
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ONCE THERE WAS A HOPE WE AWOKE TO EACH AND EVERY DAY
ONE IN WHICH WHAT WOULD NEVER BE BECAME REALITY IN EVERY WAY
AND BROUGHT A WONDEROUS SMILE TO EACH AND EVERY FACE
AS WELL WITH AN UNENDING DREAM COME TRUE
OF PEACE AND HAPPINESS FOR THE HUMAN RACE
BUT FROM THAT DREAM WE WOULD SOON AWAKE
FOR THERE ALWAYS IS A PRICE IN A WORLD OF GIVE AND TAKE
AND SOON LIKE A COLORFUL RAINBOW IN THE SKY
WHOSE COLORS SOON FADE THEN DISAPPEAR WITHOUT A WHY
EACH HOPE WOULD AGE AND SOON FADE AWAY
LEAVING ONLY MEMORIES OF THAT ONCE BRIGHT AND SHINING DAY
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ONCE THERE WAS A LIFE INTO WHICH WE ALL AWOKE
WITH AN INNOCENT BABY’S CRY AND SMILE BEFORE WE SPOKE
THE WORLD SEEMED SUCH A WARM AND LOVING PLACE
WHERE EVERYONE CARED SO MUCH FOR US WITH UNDYING GRACE
WHENEVER WE NEEDED THEM THERE THEY WOULD FOREVER BE
AND EVEN AS WE GREW INTO GRADUAL MATURITY
WE FELT SO CALM AND CONFIDENT
THERE WASN’T ANYTHING WE COULDN’T DO
WE HAD OUR YOUTH AND HOPEFULLNESS AND TO OURSELVES WERE TRUE
BUT THEN ONE DAY THE MIRROR APPEARED TO LIE
WHO WAS THAT STRANGER THERE WITHOUT A TWINKLE IN THE EYE
WHERE WAS THE LOVE WE USED TO KNOW AND IT’S WARM EMBRACE
NOW ONLY EMPTINESS TEARING DOWN NOW UNFAMILAR FACE
FILLED WITH SORROW AND REGRET OF WHAT COULD NOW NEVER BE
HERE WITHIN FLEETING GLIMPSE OF FAUX ETERNITY
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