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 May 2021 Leone Lamp
Ashley
Entanglement assumes
Subduction
I sink under your
molten compression

Shadow edges and
Depths of quintessence
We merge into earth
With oneness
Ashleykay2021
I lost myself among the frozen stars
   in the dark palette of a cold midnight.
   Nowhere left to go I came by your door
   for old times and knocked. You were gone.
   You were never here. Pretend marriage.
   Me with a wife and 2 young kids and mad
   as a hatter I fell down the rabbit hole
   where we played house and thought we
   were in love. We were burned by lust
   and divorced and last time I saw you
   **** in your dorm and me leaving for
   Boston next day. We killed a 12 pack
   and pretended one last time at love
   and I went away and lived my life as
   best I could you always on my mind
   but knowing better. I came home to
   see my kids and came by to see you.
   I lost myself among the frozen stars
   in the dark palette of a cold midnight.
   Nowhere left to go I came to your grave
   whispering your name as a prayer.
A memory is a photograph
Captured in your mind
Some are sharp and clear
Some are worn and lined.
Each one has a time and date
Stamped upon your heart
Some you look at kindly
Some you tear apart.
Every tiny detail brings a tear or smile
A choice we made, a price we paid
Such memories will never fade.
Memories will always stay
In a box inside your head
To open when you're lonely
Or at night when in your bed
When each new sun arises and shines upon our day
Let's make sure new memories are made to store away
The jar is mostly empty -
Firm packed words and phrases
Taken handfuls at a time
And flung at parchment and the world

They did not boomerang to fill the void
Replenishing what was taken.  

The clotheslines of the hoi-polloi
Are burdened with the excess,
Straining in the winds of nonchalance
Exhibiting the lack of contemplation.

Do the thoughts that ride those words
Accept that they will blow away like dust.
         ljm
Still struggling to recover the vocabuary the stroke took away.
 May 2021 Leone Lamp
Eloisa
Abloom
 May 2021 Leone Lamp
Eloisa
While lilies are asleep
Her dream has taken its wings
A promise of spring
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