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Predilection Edict

If possession is nine-tenths of the law
 entirely, you're mine
   though cosmically, empirically
         we lack the ties that bind

For naught these thoughts
 escape me through the river of the day
   while every beryl and burst of you
         contain me as they stay

And while the very air we breathe
 is cycled through our distance
   I know that even air succumbs
         to love in sweet resistance

If possession is nine-tenths of the law
 then what am I to do?
   for obligingly, surprisingly
         I now belong to you.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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