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#64
Unworthy, life, contrite, exists for another’s sake hope, denied, rots, withers and turns to ash ennui, a lover, wears your face, my soul, constrained, breaks its teeth upon our fate life suspended in a hospital bed, starts, stutters, and stops, your legs broken on perdition, I will carry you
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#63
Bell-sworn a child, shivering, follows the glacial stair ennui, overwhelming the day, sinks, an anchor, your fate, rewritten, hides itself between streetlights my fate, disparate, wishes upon a star, my wish, unable to speak or be spoken finds itself, misunderstood etched in pieces, upon the wall
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#62
black sun rising Babylon, emptied, becomes a curse your life, consigned to misery has yet to bloom, its seeds, finding fertile soil fire the kiln a flower, encased, wilts no longer, love, perplexing itself, gathers in your wake
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#61
Drawn out our fate, delineated, collapses, a twilight star, your soul, shaken loose, splits along a seam, two masks, given life, consume you in their becoming the moon, eclipsed, frames your face, my soul, trembling, meets you by the bracken fields, two masks, gifted life, shed themselves
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#60
Ritual, your heart, preserving the circle lays itself down, adolescence trembling, trades the steer its place upon the alter, you, your youth offered up, come to understand the principle value of a soul, Isaac, having paved the way, preserves your memory
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#59
Light-born, sunlight, a shower, wakes the dreamer you, your chapter not yet written yearn to close the page, ink-worn, weary, two souls, disconnected, yearn to be known, yearning, cerebral, hastens the dream, my love, exile, calling to you, bittersweet, has sunk itself before between my shoulders, exile, supplanting sleep, blooms, a flower, dreaming, upon my…
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#58
Heart rending, your sorrow, beyond a poets mean to remedy splits itself upon my sacrificial stones, what comfort there is in misery, itself, multiplies your misery, they, the harbingers, bring you only sorrow, my hands, bound by your love, cannot move to turn their curse back upon them, we instead, underserving, bear their curse perhaps,…
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# 57
Evanescent, your soul’s repose, laden down with regret, mired as before, in misery Exile, your world, shrunken down, cleaves itself upon a mirror, your imagination, condemned and nailed to a tree, consumes its silence, you, left for dead shed your skin, you, your ideal left hanging upon the hill, stumble free, aphotic, re-imagined
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Author’s Note
To my valued readers, This afternoon my father visited me at work. Over coffee, we caught up and, as one tends to do given sufficient time and caffeine, found ourselves discussing those things of great personal value. In todays case, our topic of conversation was this book to be, one of the two great passions…
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#56
Clouds, an ocean in the sky, voluminous, sweep clear the rust-steppes, Pariah, unkempt, the twisted spoon, keeping time, keeps you company, your anger, scathing, keeps your loneliness, your anger, cracking the bell, yields to nothing, the bell, lonesome, doles out Pariah, embittered, your philosophy, unyielding, cost you everything, Pariah, embittered, awaiting something akin to peace,…
