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The Gates

from Oblivion by Hugh Christopher Brown

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The rapture came, and it only let them down
Questions remained in the cities and the towns-
What had they wanted? An end to everything they scorn?
Now nothing's over, but capacity to mourn.

The Lie was total, society was spent.
We did as we pleased, while the soldiers came and went.
I took a lover, but all she wanted was my fear-
I know to some people, it's the only thing that's real.

Did you march here, or were you dragged here on your knees?
Compelled by orders, or the shackles at your feet?
Was it in a dungeon, or on the highest floor
that you received these sacraments of war?

The streets were filled long before the towers fell-
and most presumed, that it was meant for us a well.
Kind people pray-poor people do what you must do-
what's really wretched in this world, is letting others sin for you.

Freedom came my way in the form of nervous friends
who felt they had less to betray than to defend.
Love is no burden! Love is no sentence, love is no trial-
Love is the final freedom.

So did you march here, or were you carried by the chain
that links every stranger's cruelty to every martyr's name?
Satan and St. Peter tend to dress the same-
Through these gates, everything and nothing are exchanged.

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from Oblivion, released May 8, 2023

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Hugh Christopher Brown Ontario

songwriter, organist and pianist, clavinetist, what-is- necessaryist, to translate loveist, HCB makes music on Wolfe Island, in New York City and many other places. Founder of the pros and cons program producing music in prisons.

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