That's when day and night
succumb together
in a dark kiss ...
Umbral silence
wear the gray afternoon
of a fatal red ...
By day we do
the life
that at night sleeps ...
After the blue
exsanguine is extinguished
mirrored morning shines ...
It is not up to the world
say live
it's up to us to live it ...
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