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Over Thinking
Little problem, tiny flame. / Thoughts running wild / Around and around
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This Rock
This rock is strong. / A sheltering reef, encircling the first hints of growth / And keeping the water smooth and calm
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Your Touch
Your touch is fire. / Trails of heat that mark / Each place where skin brushed skin.
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Wildfire
Once I believed I was a lump of coal / Dead and burned out / Now I see I was a raging wildfire
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Comedy of error
NEXT! / Good lord, that was a disaster. / Forget the script. Perhaps it's time to improvise
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Three Years (To an Aircraft Lost)
It’s been three years. / As I drag myself from the wreckage of yet another crash / Lungs full of smoke and skin seared with burns
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Drowning
I can't breathe. / An invisible hand rests on my shoulders / Bearing down with a weight beyond my ken
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Magic Words
Don't move. / The air is rich with magic. / The words that so recently dropped from the poet's lips
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Making the leap
Halfway up the cliff face / That's as far as I've ever gone / Because halfway up the cliff face
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Fish out of water
I can't breathe. / Starved for oxygen / Hurling myself this way and that
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