Are you familiar with Stephen King's The Dark Tower series? It's the series he dedicated his life to, and his near-death in a car accident last decade finally pushed him to finish, after he was scared he won't get to it. This series is woven into many of his books, a hint here, a reference there. He spoke of how he feels it interwoven with his life.

You may not know that the inspiration to that series came from a poem, Robert Browning's ["Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"](http://www.bartleby.com/246/654.html).
It's only fitting then, that King's series in turn inspired me to write a couple of poems.
Well, more like 1.5 poems. I had an image crawl into my mind, and when I took to pen and paper it came as two similar but not perfectly aligned pictures. Look at them both to take in the full image.

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### Sunset 1:
<p>

Amidst the field of roses, 
a gaunt scarecrow
grows. 
King of all that it surveys. 

Its skeletal shape glows
the colour of bleached bones, 
amidst the blood-red
weeds. 

You can see it pointing
its inviting finger at you. 
And the board is set — 
A match for two. 

Your cloak of shadows
twirls along your path. 
The roses fly 
and the light falters. 

A sunset birthed of Delirium.

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### Sunset 2:
<p>

A scream of blood-raw roses,
a gaunt scarecrow grows
in its midst
like a skeleton key.

Like a finger it both
calls and commands;
a destiny it promises to unlock
and a curse to fulfill.

From above it looks to be
a tooth,
chipped and cracked.
A hateful white.

The crows take flight
— a sunset drawn in Hell.

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I can't use [this image](https://irvinggfm.deviantart.com/art/The-Dark-Tower-Crimson-370117673) because I don't own the rights, but this is the perfect image to go alongside with the poems above, not the one I ended up using. Check it out.

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[Image source](http://www.tokkoro.com/3065967-calm_clouds_dry_farm_field_golden-hour_nature-photography_peaceful_quiet_silhouette_sky_sunrise_sunset_tranquil_trees.html).

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