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Come, world
Come crashing down
Just as you have threatened

While we stand up straight

Just as we have prepared
Come watch our audacious dance
Come, world 

fifty now

I know in hushed song

Century-old wood floors will herald in new dancers 

Learned souls, unphased by farewells and long shadows and dusk

Owning eyes unwilling to shade out the blinding unknown of each new dawn 

And the lies of lavender walls will be a thing for the past