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A Hammered Dream
By Steven Joseph McCrystal
QuailBellMagazine.com
A blazing furnace was where I was born.
When delivered from that forge a hammer beat me; a hammer shaped me: pressure and time, pressure and time, and hammered twice again. Pressure, time, pressure, time, a pounded pulse . . . A rhythmed steel on anvil crafts my spark; crafts my life. A sword beaten upon this Crucible called fate. Crushed, and worked by divinity some say; some say yes: some say no, some say go but folded steel is stronger; so pound it faster, pound it swifter, pound it quicker, make it stronger. Make the truer steel; make it sublime. And make it mine to wield until eternity folds into back time.
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