Rivière Rouge

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Amber light encompassed dead, rest above the Rivière Red
the blood of all those sailing to their summer cemetery bed.
Remorse lights the path, on their journey to the end

Struggling with eternity’s cast, their time now to descend
as their souls transcend.

For the sad eyes of the past turn bright eyes to the future
only to be dashed on the rocks of the same.

Sleeping in a window seat, the fog is thick down from the sky
waiting for the last grain of sand to fall, to expose the unspoken lie.
Is it darker in the darkness on the other side?
What judge awaits? What soft tomb lies? What never-ending ride?

Amber light encompassed dead. Rest above the Rivière Red
the blood of all those sailing to their summer cemetery bed.

Exit from the living light
to rest inside eternal night.

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