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Chapter XXV: Bells and Parachutes

from The Memory of Good by Miriam Marston

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You told me four signs
and I recalled only a half of one.
You gave me those lines
to memorize but I neglected some.
Why don't you just find another friend and
I will stay in my own insignificance, right here;
What is it you're saying?
It's noisy all the time
and the fog is just so thick.
I've made my mind up,
I'll make my way,
no one can hold me too close.
Love is frightening
in its own way, especially when it's so close.
Front and center:
all that needs a change but
I have liked the way
that I've been half-invested in
easier believing,
a cozy little refuge from a
call I've set aside.
Thank you for the sun
and thank you for the rain,
you and I will always have a thing.
Thank you for your kindness,
even for your silence,
all the lessons that I thought I’d never need.
I've read the stories of
somebody else's life;
it's hard to read my own.
All those walls,
they fell like dominoes.
I feel young as well as old.
It’s quite a long way off
from where I’m standing.
Here’s a place at least I know,
and where I’ve landed now.
What is it I’m leaving behind?
It might be better than the things that lie ahead.

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from The Memory of Good, released September 7, 2017

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Miriam Marston Portland, Oregon

I started composing when I was 10. I called one of my first songs "Nostalgia", although I can't recall what my ten year old self was so nostalgic about. Released my first album in 2000. Things got busy, but I never stopped writing. Even if it meant composing on a mostly-broken piano in the basement of a university that I wasn't even enrolled in. Enjoy all the music and reading! Pax. MM ... more

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