Carpe Diem
This morning will never return
February twelfth burns in silence
Time breathes softly against my skin
It moves on without turning back
I feel the shadow lay its cold hand
Upon the fragile neck of hours
Life trembles like a naked flame
Between birth and forgetting
Each second asks for courage
The courage to love before night falls
I walk within fragile clarity
With my heart open to vertigo
Death watches without speaking
Yet I choose the warmth of now
I gather this day like rare fruit
And drink its light completely
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