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this:

there is a deeper being
in us all

clarity is a breath

it doesn't last
it never lasts

we love
we sex
we eat

just beneath
the bowels of hypocrisy

pleasure is a flame
we
burn

still an essence

and there are petals
as rivers they know

do not mistake this heart
this turning

for more than this

 

distance:

how far is distance?

where should the body remain
remake its longing

we are the barriers
between us
and you are the living
note of song

long
left

in me

what matters of the now
is only then
as it were

would you crawl to my vulnerabilities?
would you betray the logic in you
to see, to hear
the flesh

would you forget everything
the wind knows
to dance the night
as mistress to the stars

there are lips that part
for such an answer

a disrobing
of contradiction