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what is it that I'm lacking?
Is there a gulf in me?
Is it so vast
That I can't climb out of it?
Does your sight see right down
To the abyss in..
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When your eyes meet my feet,
When they reach the hilt of my chest,
Rest on my shoulders
And carve etches into my cheekbones,
Do you pause for ai..
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Sliding on in.
Casually grinning from ear to ear,
Slinking into darkness,
Wrapping itself in sin.
Smugly perching in its corner,
Dressed in thinl..
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Sitting on the edge of reason,
Emotive me, logical me,
Balanced, precariously -
Where I have been previously.
Floating, floating marvellously.
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Undoing the rhyme and the hard-earned time,
Poetry flows in bows -
Painting tails of yesterday
And tears upon my toes.
Untying the dreams and t..
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Beyond the realms of time we began,
And began in tender ways.
With souls laid out bare to the stars and the winds
And with hearts so rare they were..
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We found a place together -
A wall hung low against an arch of grass.
We lolled in conversation,
Averting gaze and mutual gaze,
Groping in the dar..
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I don't think of you as I used to before
That's for sure, that's for sure.
It's not that I don't want to find you alive
Any more, any more,
But I ..
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I lie awake in blistered ache,
Avoiding the dreams and the void in between.
I stare at the air with too much care
And hear the whispers beginning ..
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We didn't dance together
But when we did it was clumsy.
Our feet knocked together,
Out of rhythm and awkward.
We'd lose grip of each other
And ge..
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