Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Egress

Leaves from your chocolate tree sit

on my coffee table awaiting our exhalations

And we touch toes and stare at the dust particles in

the sunlight between us

There’s a treasure chest of love resting in the corner

And still we are indigent

And still we lose ourselves in spoils of wishful thinking and rabid devotion

You are forever free

If we could just write these words into our skin

You are forever free

If we could just tag these thoughts to our heart

Let’s pick a part and play our parts in our Act Two

You leave and I grieve and we weave a fantasy existence

You grieve and I leave and we weep a floor full of pointless tears

pointed at our willingness to forget that between us in us for by us there is love

The wetness spawns a reprise and we laugh and we fall and we fill

the room with flesh and spirit and fresh spit dripping sweet from our clamoring lips

We are forever free

If we could just rivet this river of reprisals into our core

Lock them away as we embrace

We are forever free

And we leave the stage together and apart

suspended and sustained.

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