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title: Brave Poem
description: "Poem on memory inspired by the anime <em>Angel Beats!</em>; do you remember love?"
created: 2010-11-13
modified: 2010-11-13
status: finished
confidence: fiction
css-extension: dropcaps-not dark-mode reader-mode toc-not index
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But we all will be alone, \
illusions moving in memory, \
someday, surely, so: \
show no sorrow, laugh and love; \
bravely walk bearing no wish but \
to live while you will live--- \
and not forget these feelings.

See your school yard; \
blanched blackboards, \
gleaming grinders, \
sharp sticky seats, \
restless paper piles recalling \
cheerful companions of childhood.

As we remember: \
collecting pebbles in the corner pile, \
calling excitedly as we cache each \
and smooth the soft tar sphere; \
next, sharp glass now sand-ground.

As we remember: \
dashing through the double trees \
jumping by jammed branches \
trespassing to free trapped friends.

As we remember: \
bricks scribbled with boyish secrets, \
read only by the oily rains.

As we remember: \
even when everyone's world ends,

sunlight shafting through the silent school.
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