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We Stared At The Corpses Of Stars

We wandered our gazes

to the semidarkness Illuminated

above our sight.

 

Looking at the allurement

that were now empty caskets

hanging on tombstones of lights,

clinging to there eventual demise.

 

Lying on the earth,

                             we felt at peace.

Knowing we were one day

to be woven within its fabric,

empty shells of pebbles lost in

a lake of timeless moments.

 

We would be seashells on its shores

gently corroding with each wave.

till we were grains of eternity

variations of us everywhere.

 

Looking upon each other,

our hands clasping like a

                 momentary fissure

sealing a grain of moments

                 between ourselves.

 

*"Death is a moment where life

is cherry a falling slowly,*

 

For we each hang on delicate

moments,

growing till we do as everything

does. Descending till we evaporate

from reflections and thought.

 

"Where all echoes who've already past,

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