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+<title>Gar</title>
+<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_gar.svg"><img src="../img/runes/gar.svg" alt="Gar rune" title="Gar rune"></a></p>
+<h1>Gar</h1>
+
+<p>Traditional meaning: Odin's spear</p>
+
+<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>stop asking</li>
+	<li>you're not supposed to know</li>
+	<li>wait and watch</li>
+	<li>you must go forward on faith alone</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>you need to know</li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>There is not a known Norwegian or Anglo-Saxon rune poem for Gar.</p>
+
+<p>A modern poem:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+	<p>There used to be "forbidden questions"<br/>
+	you would only answer with hesitation,<br/>
+	would sometimes answer "no"<br/>
+	just to throw<br/>
+	a wrench in my anxiety's gears.</p>
+
+	<p>Although<br/>
+	I guess by now I should know<br/>
+	that if you've loved me all these years,<br/>
+	there's no reason you would stop now.<br/>
+	Not after everything I've ever done<br/>
+	or the atrocities I have yet to commit:<br/>
+	your life is mine, you insist;<br/>
+	I'm the only one you want to spend it with.</p>
+
+	<p>I guess by now<br/>
+	you've figured out<br/>
+	that nervousness is my base nature,<br/>
+	that while consciously I know,<br/>
+	it hasn't pierced through all my layers.<br/>
+	Hasn't come to reside<br/>
+	in my left lung, straining for air,<br/>
+	strung up with rope and left to die.</p>
+
+	<p>It's said that Odin sacrificed<br/>
+	himself to himself in this way,<br/>
+	knowledge the thing that he sought.<br/>
+	An alphabet to answer magic,<br/>
+	guard rails for creative thought.</p>
+
+	<p>Just as fated is Nidhogg<br/>
+	to the roots of Yggdrasil forever gnaw,<br/>
+	so I too lurk the underground of Yewiffe,<br/>
+	stuck going in circles, unable to leave.<br/>
+	This last rune standing at the end of time,<br/>
+	a doorway out<br/>
+	crossed out<br/>
+	with two opposing lines.<br/>
+	There's something in my past<br/>
+	for which I am wracked with longing,<br/>
+	but I can't find it<br/>
+	and neither do I know what it is<br/>
+	and going down is this ship<br/>
+	and the blood<br/>
+	in my lungs<br/>
+	is pooling<br/>
+	where the spear<br/>
+	has pierced<br/>
+	my side<br/>
+	and in my own sorrow sans escape I am drowning.</p>
+
+	<p>"I thought I told you-<br/>
+	<i>I thought you knew</i>-<br/>
+	that I'd never leave you behind."</p>
+</blockquote>