Slow Destruction

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Sunshine in my hair
in your eyes
on my shoulder…

Slow trickling sunset
disheveled in the leaves
tinkling with cool summer breeze

Leisurely appearance of the stars
A distant strain of some forgotten melody

Gradually…
Extinct Awareness
Extant Energy

All that remains,
In the twitter of twilight
Is
Stillness of the air between us…

The hum of silence rises in tempo,
And, am mildly scared…
You can hear the song

Archaic emotions
New feelings

The difference between the dusk and dawn melts
Its just red wine…

And though, you don’t say anything
Nor do I breathe a word

Winged, I swing on the clouds
Wind flirts with my hair
Kisses my cheeks
And, for the moment
I exist, only in the moment

There isn’t a before
Nor an after…

“… so did you ...?”
You ask,…
And, all I can manage is a
Quiet

And with that glint of your eyes,
My peace crashes on the floor or
wherever it falls
when it comes off from
the ride of milky way…


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