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Hiatus

I had a dream to dissolve my body
Into harmony and song. 
Not to be appraised course or consequence,
But the ecstasy for which I long.

I’d seen sparks pique, however, now they taunt
Ere each breath, each glare guts me.
I’ve been left to wonder, will passion pass,
Or will destiny cage the free?

Physical facades that guzzled my breath— 
I loathed am’rous transactions—
Abandoned me gasping, grasping for air.
Throttled, I lay in satisfaction.
 
For today I gazed on as swarms of flies 
Amassed stale, dead to the floor
Induced, I grin, inhale seriatim
Plaguing every lung, every pore.

For salt and terror could never hatch wood,
And doors are never undone.
Time festered and birthed a derisive spring
Which befell the immolated sun.

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The Old Woman

I once knew a woman as old as the earth,
As frail as the wind, and as warm as the sun.
She taught me to remember that time has its worth.
Afraid if she didn't, like her, I’d have none.

Her hand was as frail as the breath of the wind
as she clung like a child to the fountain of life.
Her braid was her lifeline--so bare and so thinned,
Her claim to contentment, born without strife.

She must’ve been a dancer at an earlier point,
The way she dances through my heart, my soul, and my mind,
She wasn't scared to die, to disappear, or disappoint
Because she knew her heart and mine were intertwined.

Now she lives within me, an angel born of light.
She's as pure as redemption, simple and plain.
I miss her though I'm with her--she's my kryptonite.
Her mem’ry is the blood that runs through my veins.

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Preface

They told me time would change me, that nightmarish figures would disappear.
So I watched them with contempt awaiting the day my mind would clear.

I taunted and I pressed them, prompted by a looming lust of doubt
That they would spare my heart, though I deserved no sun, no home or route.

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Face To Face

We always start across the room
Yet end up side by side.
I'd tell myself you're like the rest,
But then I'd have to lie.

Oftentimes I wonder: why you?--
Still young, finding your place.
But maybe, like a mirror, through you
I see myself face to face.

Today, mid conversation,
I saw it in your eyes--
A shift so subtle and so plain,
Like lifting off a guise.

I pretended not to notice,
But inwardly I smiled,
'Cause I just lifted off my own.
I like this; It's been a while.