Leaving the Now, For Now

When I touch this place
     healing bluish sallow
now,
    rain spots crimson
on my skin
       but only to me.
Tears behind today
pause to listen
       for you in the quiet...

Silence pounds in the freezing rain.
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Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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