draw us into orbit

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Dead Poets

 

"draw us into orbit"

 

In the villa imagined,

a single flame persists—

not Ormen’s candle repeated,

but a fragile axis

around which shadows turn.

 

And when Bon Scott fell,

his voice extinguished,

the band carried his gravity forward—

a different star,

but the pull endured.

 

Galaxies bend around centres,

but when a star enters,

all else becomes orbit—

planets, memories, voices

pulled into alignment.

 

David Bowie became

a black star collapsing inward,

his light dimming,

yet his pull persevering—

not silence, but resonance,

a gravity we cannot escape.

 

Something shifted

on the day they died:

a presence rose, stepped aside,

yet the field remained,

drawing us into orbit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh, David, the sheer

Oh, David, the sheer fragmented audacity of your eternal endeavors, a space-petty smirking dilemma!!


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Oh David— fragmented

Oh David—

fragmented audacity,

your eternal endeavors

scatter like constellations,

a smirking paradox

at the edge of space,

dilemma turned orbit,

still pulling us near.

 

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