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Love In the Time of Uncertainty

"Love in the Time of Uncertainty"
Like the tide of the ocean coming and going with its calm seductive hushed reassurances and vociferous remonstrations dragging me towards the undertow I have placed my trust in lovers that come and go like holidays short spent longing for depth and length, I burn them and begin again considering all their ardent lamentations best to put a sea wall up and walk along the edge considering all the fins that swim I throw pearls at them to wear around their thorny necks sea rope and weeds I wear like the dead, sea urchins and sirens going off in my head Love rises from hiatus again like the Sun when all the dying has now begun The Heart is a sea shell sold by the sea shore placed now against my ear a treasure chest warm and beating from a shipwreck becries its glorious tales I hear its distant humming a song it sings to me across the waves of absence, another’s longing, I drink it all in a tonic for an old Life to die a new journey to begin I am as green as absynthe drugged in delusions and disillusionment, now darkest dark blue in form with shades of deepest grey as a tempest in a cloudy hot mess reading tea leaves in a cup turned upside down as above so below is this how it is done? Are there such things as romantic prophecies, I am lost in reading all the other ruins and chariots storming fallen tarot towers gambling on right and left bowers jokers and their tricks, Queen's Slippers badly fit card houses built with straw clowns and broken sticks questions are asked of the mystic glamour mysteries Love in the Time of Uncertainty Peace in the Time of Uncertainty Wind in my sails sends me out into The Ocean again ... (LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
"Everything Else has Gone Wrong" / Bombay Bicycle Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C92lUB3SAzE Lyrics: https://genius.com/Bombay-bicycle-club-everything-else-has-gone-wrong-lyrics

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Date: 4/18/2020 8:39:00 PM
A mystical magical missive only one poet could have mastered. I am pleased that she did.
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2020 3:02:00 AM
Thank you Mme Krutsinger. The product of solitary confinement and a propensity for pushing envelopes. Trust you and those you hold close are safe and all well. L. x
Date: 4/18/2020 6:18:00 PM
What will come of it all...we have nothing if we don't have love
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2020 3:04:00 AM
Health? Stability? Peace? Happiness? Love is not everything, but it is the key.

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