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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37 No. 3. March 20, 1974

To Rest in Peace

To Rest in Peace

Leave me alone
I have come much too far
My bones were not so hard
That I could dare this road
Leave me alone.
You thought I knew, that
I understood your pain
That I'd someday come again
Well I've failed and that's a shame
But you've not right to drag me on
Leave me alone.
I am a symbol nothing more;
Remember what I came here for
I thought that God would help me out
Well I was wrong.
You put my words into a book
You praised the torture that I took
But then you all began to doubt
When it took so long.
I was a mortal, merely man
I was not there when time began
My power came from you alone
When you had faith.
Leave me alone!

—Marty