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A Cold Dusk

It burns,

coldly,

in the evening sun;

that sun I sought to share with you. 

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I feel its coarse whiskers there-abound,

scratching against my eyes and cheeks.

I wish at once for something softer.

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Should my torture then not be complete,

I am reminded at the thought of it,

that blasted, evil thing 

that I took no small part in. 

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I am alone in my own way,

brought to my knees to beg again for a self I once knew,

afraid of what I’ve become anew.

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Tending then to my own desire,

I have shorn away my flame and fire,

blown out and lost atop a sunken pyre. 

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Lost as I am in the lying desert,

I seek to drown myself in lying dust

as my soul has taken to the coldest dusk.

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O’ Brother, Art Thou?

Deigning to fail,

I have done so again.

I watch and wait

against the stroke of a pen.

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Beautiful blues

and verdant greens

bely the depth

of ungiven means. 

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A simple cloud,

so perched in the sky

as a Rorschach test

and cause to lie.

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Listen now

to the chirping of birds,

like last time then,

but this time in thirds.

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Cut away,

I am apart

from all those things

I made myself a part.

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Dark undercurrent

of the evening Sun

incites in me a drive

to turn tail and run.

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We Who Know Cannot Return

I smelled sunshine

that last time,

the first time,

this time.

Always and forever cloaked in aged twine.

Never did I understand

that gentle reprimand,

how age’s sweet kiss

turned from youth and bliss.

One by one in turn I saw

in visage so raw

how stairs became steep;

my youth I prayed to keep.

And beyond those ruby fields

were iron eyes steeled,

impugned by what I had sought,

in terror of things wrought.

Up and up into the sky,

into then whatever might lie,

concealed,

beyond those ruby fields.