A shield of shadows, so private and deep,
Where whispers nest, secrets softly sleep.
Enough light to see the crafted phrase,
Etched on walls in a moonlit haze.

A few dare enter this exclusive club,
Where auto-magic fills each bubbling tub.
A dose of courage required to stay,

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Dawn paints the sky, a flag of palest light,
another shrimp boat idles, barely afloat.
I throw a glance, then write another line,
another decade blurring, caught in my throat.

We used to live wild here, by the water's edge,
a grant to raise a family, a simple cause.

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Toward a cabin, shadowed and deep,
I felt the great weight of secrets to keep.
An inquiry burning, a symptom so clear,
Like an abandoned elephant, fueled by fear.

Six steps I took, then wanted to flee,
A junior captain lost on the sea.
My finger traced lines on a dusty pane,

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The machine breathes, a dry, metallic lung,
While circuits churn, a frantic, pulsing song.
An alpha's urge, a restless, coded plea,
To plumb the market's vast, uncaring sea.

The depth is dark, a place where fortunes drown,
Where sudden spikes can turn hope upside down.

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A deer steps from the forest's edge,
ordinary, yet holds a coded legend.
In its eyes, a power sleeps,
a hint of what the wilderness keeps.

The race of time has scarred the land,
a memory of empires, clutch in hand,
that sought to destroy nature's reign,

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A fiscal year begins to fall,
a flat horizon, same for all.
We chase the runway, short and fast,
a grant, a hope, a future cast.

Our visuals flicker, dreams take flight,
we swear this time we'll make it right.
The belt tightens, a hungry sting,
yet still we strive, and hope to win.

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The earth exhales, a silver, shadowed yard,
where risk takes root, a feral, hungry thing,
an animal instinct, biting, sharp and hard.

We begin here, with nothing left to lend,
except a sketch of galaxies we’ve known,
a private orbit, spinning without end.

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