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the clouds were thick - to the verge of suffocation and the last breaths of the sunset outlined the world in pink the pavement fell for us in every direction, its blankness bruised, surrendered ...blind to the weight of our stories that's what these nights are like - handfuls of her hair in love with her love (drowning in mine) i burn myself in the fire of her voice... II. my eyes have found her shape, liquified against the twilight and in finding her have at last gone silent, lulled to rest by a promise of the infinity which only she can make me believe in these judas hands of mine - soft on the curve of her hip, fall palely clenched between the stars understanding in full the day they'll have to force themselves open wide enough to let her go in every thought a new word for our goodbye shoving hope into every corner; space too precious to hold anything else because for the first (or maybe second) : time i'm alive with who i am, alive with what she's made me engulfed with the perennial struggle against the intrusion of time, our moon stretches on... -08-16-00- |
