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Your flowing hair glides through the room,
Your eyes flutter with expectation,
Your lips search for words to say,
To keep the conversation moving, “Alive”
Your beating heart on the break of new beginning,
Your breath hot with feelings undiscovered,
Your soul searching for a reflection
In someone who looks just like you.
Deception keeps the breeze from breathing out
Our flickering matchflame story;
We discover nothing amid the parameters
And wisdom holds them in place.
Scintillation,
Still.
You’re still here.
It’s not your fault.
You’ve done nothing wrong to be in my heart.
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Recognizable Mystery
04:22
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It’s the situation.
It’s the lonely way I find meaning.
It’s the way the days end and I take
My thoughts and arrange their capture
Finding their flaws, lair by lair,
And make a mountain out of insecurities
And wonder why I’m not a conqueror for someone
And wonder maybe that I am.
Then I consider how ludicrous this is:
Me, wandering alone, inside the mirror—
Recognizable without the mystery.
Then I consider how ludicrous this is:
Me, wondering, alone, in front of the mirror—
Recognizable without the mystery.
Under covers I think of you
And I know that it’s not your fault.
You’ve done nothing wrong to be in my heart.
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Stories End
03:21
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It’s funny, though, the end of the story,
Not the comedic fashion in which loose ends get tied,
But the part when I know already what happens.
Are we the crafters, the writers, the ones to paint the page?
For if we did not have this pen, our description would be left undiscovered.
I wake in the morning to find your heart beside me—
My memory feels the doors close.
The mirror flashes another glimpse of me
Before warm water covers my ears,
Drowning the world for wonderful moments.
During the frothing clamor I muse, remembering
That in the end,
The crest that is now here smashes words t o g e t h e r.
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N o w h e r e
07:03
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“I’m left alone,
Gathering dust like an old remembrance.
I know you don’t believe me,
I know you don’t really mean to be
But if there’s nowhere to go but down,
I won’t climb the wall to the ground.”
Left here now
Like an old remembrance
A memory of fire
Left here now
Like a forgotten present
Soon to be the past
A memory of fire
Nowhere left
N o w h e r e
The Present.
Passed.
Your reflection alters my own reflection.
You see me as I make it so.
I see you as you see me.
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Blinded Eyes
03:55
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Hands out-stretched,
Seeking comfort from pain with blinded eyes.
Lonely.
My world was rapt in yours
When you dropped yourself into the sea.
The rocks upon the shoreline scrape my knees.
Seeking shelter from pain with blinded eyes.
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Still
05:09
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Were you my reflection?
Are you needed to complete my image?
I see me as you see me.
I see me as you and
Alone
We are Still.
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Breath: New World
04:24
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The world is new
The world is made alive by your breath
From the waters, over the seas.
Beauty is in you.
Love calls your name.
“Love!” cries your name.
The attraction of endless energy,
Periodic helplessness, the explorer,
The pathfinder, a seeker, a doer,
One who needs leading—
Someone, answer the questions now forming on your lips!
Someone, shout the cries of your heart:
Tear these walls between all and nothing!
Cast down these shrines of individuality!
Confinement keeps love from the human level.
All or nothing leaves
Even the all between two with nothing else.
All or nothing leaves nothing else.
I’ve spit against those walls.
Give me new bricks, new spit.
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Respit(e)
03:00
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I thank God that I could see you tonight.
It’s been so long where we could speak aright of the world’s delight in casting our own down.
From them we meet in secret under the leaves, under the trees—
With words harder to come by than in our dreams—
But we speak once again—your innocence shines in the stream
Of consciousness descending upon the hill of forgotten dreams.
Your beauty will never fade. I’ll carry it forever.
Open Love. The secret is safe with me for
I’ll tell no one. I’ll not tell even you.
The capacities and boundaries to love are endless.
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Sun Fade
03:08
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All the while the pot by the sill is still.
Dust gathers and its red orange becomes brown.
Faded by sunlight, cracked by storm.
Delicately petals open, silently faces spring, fragrantly air streams,
Bathed with heavenly beams and cooled by the moisture of my hand.
Desirous to be a sanctuary from the distortions you’ll meet
Your eyes so wide so curious.
As a protector, I repress you in my grip
As a leader, I take you off the path.
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Today Staying Away
03:50
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You did a smart thing,
Staying away today.
Your beautiful eyes
My memorized lines
Are now more easily
Forgotten
My last memory of you
Will be when you said that
You hated goodbyes.
You looked deep into my eyes
And said you’d put them off until
Tomorrow
You did a smart thing,
Staying away today.
Maybe your heart knew
The fragile balance it
Hung between,
That my hands were tied, and
That we’d both prefer to dream the dream
A little longer
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