Wonderments and Atrocities

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Bard

The old poet sat let fall his staff and cried silent tears a sorrowful refrain for a brother who had died An unlikely voice he’d had to cry and call, rage and rant our tragedies and comedies, histories and tales until at the very end of it silence claimed it when his body’d finally failed The old poet poured then raised his glass and drank to dance and deals in the sinking city to the tragic jester and comic knight who’d never wanted tears or pity

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sit

you hurt and i don't know what to do or even if i should try but you hurt and i don’t believe the poets lie that one should carry pain alone so i will sit alongside you take your hand in mine and hurt too

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taste

you taste of slow heat  shade under trees  and the blues  like desperate poetry  the unknown tragedy of barely missed connections  and walking along streets in the rain  on the hottest night of the year you taste of dangerous and wild things  and i have been starved

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quiet

Do you know her? Have you read her heart or listened to the wishes her soul whispers into careful shadows? Warm in the solitude of corner tables overlooked by the bold and pleading the hopeful terror of being found she sits

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crush

If we have just days to be in love then let us do it utterly and feast like wild things on the tiny eternity that lies between this moment and when we are claimed again by a world that won’t spare a instant for firsts that last

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bounce

i drop each one they always tumble but they never ever bounce

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courage

April is the cruelest month the poet whispered with the confidence of someone who’d never taken the time to walk through the random and casual tragedy of every single day

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history

whisper to me your history time woven into words slipping into sounds infusing me with pieces of you make me a part of your story and I will share with you your history

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hero

i want to ride into your life and rescue you from all the evil things and then i remember that i am one

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age

sometimes it feels good to be only just consequential the smallest threat to fidelity an echo of the blissful chaos of youthful vigour misspent before the currency of wisdom had betrayed any interest

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liaison

I need to hold you naked and close all night every night and share with you every drop of this exquisite peril I need to sleep with you in all the ways that I love you

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perspective

you see a culmination of failure of regret anxiety and fear i see a wavering light in my ordinary abyss an infant spark of hope enough for today

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good night

the time to court morpheus to dream so quiet adventures that morning gifts you the blessed curse of impossible longing to find the places where your soul danced and sang and loved in the world between yesterday and tomorrow

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Sun sets in my eyes All tomorrow's memories Yesterday's laughter

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shame

i’m ashamed of my fear that i was not able to face it down that i made you have to tell me i would never be enough to be yours

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Exploring

Let us go exploring, you and I to places we have never been Finding new adventures not imagined and uncovering sights never seen On and on we'll wander seeking understanding on each far and unknown shore sailing sea and sky together until we decide that understanding doesn't matter anymore

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lost

I can’t resolve all of the fragments into what they once were but I can gather them again into the divine imperfection of an ordinary life the paradise granted to shameless saints and gentle sinners