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you are
|the lone guardian•|
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standing regal over-
looking the ocean •
as your light spears
far over the echoing
ripples•i must have
misread your beckon
-ing signals•they had
warned me of impen-
ding doom •  should i
come too near to where
deadly rocks loom• but
strangely enough, i find
myself drawn   so much
closer• like a siren's call
that  could not  sing any
sweeter•now it's too late
to even look back  •   i am
now before you under skies
of black•torn asunder by the
ravenous rocks hidden below
• still I'm mesmerised by your
enchanting glow  • waters here
have been the      grave of many
hulls and bows • but...these last
few moments it's just me and you
••••as my love, my beacon,••••
••••••••my lighthouse••••••••
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I am a Pandora's box
: an enigma
: a flow of contradictions
I am infinitely pulled by madness and lucidity
: ambiguous
: definite
I am the lake and the river
: deep
: never-ending
I am explosion and implosion
: wrecking anything great
: and infinitesimal in my wake
I am the universe and the  vacuum
: expanding
: condensing
I am two poles wide apart
: the northern
: the southern
I am two realms
: the real
: the surreal
I am the skies and the earth
making love to birth a questionable existence
Dangling precariously on the edge
Floating in a current of self-made paradoxes
Born to be my own antithesis
And breathe with the complexity of it all

Pray forgive me then,
For living as I am
Is a battle in itself