closing the gates,    one more time,
visitors out, it was deserted anyway
the heart has been put on the pedestal, gathering dust
been picked up several times only to be put back down
each time shabbier than before
a little scratch here
a little dirt there
wondering will the gates be opened again
should it
or whether the heart was worth the price
or will anyone finally take it home
and prize it highly
as every heart should

If you can want it, then it is there
It's not a mirage in your horizon,
Now is not your repercussion,

How far you are from it
depends on how far you have been willing to walk its miles...
Despite how long
The pause or the walks

It's there,
It's not your mirage,
It's in your direction
Now is not your repercussion,
It's just a time to walk or to be still
Any, as always

--------------------                             ------------------
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----------------------------------­--          ------------------------------------
----------------------------­-----Love is not----------------------------------
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---the roses in a dozen,------@@@@@@@----------------------------------
-----------­----------------------------|>=<|-------you tie in a knot,---------
---------------nor words spoken, nor unspoken,------------------------
------------------------ but when our hearts meet, --------------------
------------- being one of the reasons they beat,------------------
-------------- in comfort,------------------------------------------
--------------­-- only we understand,-------------------
-------- walking hand in hand,-------------------
-------------- side by side-------------------
--------------------------------♡♡----
--­------------------------
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and my universe is just crumbly
Built on top of shaky ground,
burning under a different scorching sun
It's not your fault
it has fallen apart
There, right before you came,
for whatever reason I cannot tame
So these tears mean nothing,
go pass by, just passing...
Whatever Fate wants me to learn
she's cruel enough not to give any hint
I'm a good nurse by the N-th shot,
so... I'll be alright,
I promise you that...

calming self in verses
burying thoughts in words
plain and deceiving
poems... in rehearse
actions in reverse...
presence in just being...

We're all as lost in rust and frost
and don't say otherwise
because if you don't feel the same
maybe your time is yet to come

But worry not you're in good companies
if only us would all share stories
if only us all would admit and accept
dancing along with no regret

Hanging out with the wrong crowd
just to feel that I belong
every night a different crowd
trying to play along,
but nothing seems right
only to stick out like a sore thumb
the sounds of the crowd muffled drowned by my own thoughts
non-existent cheers to the genuine me
muddy grounds and misty rain
fake laughters masking the emptiness inside
laughing only to play along

Someday maybe I'll get back to me
Someday maybe you'd find the old you
what your future tells, I can't say for sure,
but for now let's just pour us another
Swim along, I won't let you sink
you can hold my hand for support
and I'll hug you 'til you feel better

You
captured my whole world in a coy,
single
simple
smile
A lighthearted grin conveying no meaning
nor intentions, nor yearning,
but the purest of joy

and though that's not an offer
all I want now is to join in that little happy world,
leave mine behind,

so simple, pure, so naive...

how we exchanged nothing else but a simple banter
...

but if you'll let everything unfold,
with me, even if it doesn't work out, with a memory so fond,
I would be contented enough in make believe