Speak softly,
so I may savor
every morsel
of your tender
words.

~~~

I hold the pencil in my hand,
My words devoted to you.
Writing the wrongs in my broken dreamland,
Though phrases will never do.

Looking at you in the room,
My thoughts will never idle.
Your beauty is one that will always loom,
So why can't I think of a title?

~

trick               poem             belie
                                                
this              smooth,           until

frank               and          exposed

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mind,               lost,                   it...
                                                
now               maybe          daresay
                
it's                 hidden     elsewhere

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redundant      guesses              and/or
                                      
questions          about                      life

make               meaning            certain

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subtly                different          thoughts

grace               realizations,           which

our                      starkest                  blur

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time,                          its                            eyes
                                                                  
your                         poem,                      blink

now;                          gray                        scene

~

bear                     witness,                            a

child                  con­suming               poison

like                       purpose,                   watch

~

now,                      slip                    knots,

firm                      words                    they

ghost,                    into                   tangle

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steal                    night,                       to

quiet                    your                      tear

of                           joy                     apart

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engineer,      through               your

close        conversation,    tempting

doors             guarding          secrets

~

end,          the    ramble,

only        read   literally

when     words         fail

~