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In crowded rooms I saw you but feared to say hello, So I never invited you round for tea, instead I just wallow, In this life without love, I know not of what I have lost, And each slightest sun beam cripples in the nightly frost, Twisted branches hug me, creeping over lumbered limbs that know my smell, long for my touch and tangle in my sins, I am desperate to break free from the blackened bark, And rid me of this sombre paint, my colourless birthmark, I long to smell the salty breaths of the wild and violet ocean, But instead I numbly follow each life-long learnt emotion, But frothy waves desert me, And these twisted branches hurt me, Though they say they love me dearly, they pierce into my sullen skin. When I first met you love, I didn’t know what to think, I’d been on stormy tides for years and I balanced on the brink, I know not of what I am my love as I float with you beside, And I know not of what I will now become on these tempest tides, To take the risk of having you is to leave known loneliness, But in this cloistered room my breaths unwillingly confess, Your flowers bud from rotting wood in calm sporadic delight, And blossom amongst dewy moss against a sunless fight, Maybe we can share a brew my dear, a steamy cup of love, “Please do not shy away from me”, sweetly sings your mourning dove, But blooming orchids scare me, And the roses thorns cling to me, Though I long for your touch my love, I am nothing without my kin. You say you have always known me love, as though you were always there, Like you were always at the breakfast table and I always had a chair, You’ve bought me out of darkness dear, without shadows I cannot hide, I feel you watching me as I sleep, from my one lamped, one booked bedside, You’re with me in my dreams my love but not keeping tears at bay, But now when glassy eyes run deep I’m no longer in the clay, There will be times when I desert you and leave your loving hold, But know I’ll always think of you until I am grey and old, I promise to always love you love and I’ll always be home for tea, And I thank you love for loving me though at times I’ve wanted to flee, Now caring words they warm me, And growing forests holds me, Though we are new born friends my love, just now I love you love, yes always.
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