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Dec 2019
I stand here, in a barren land with a mouth, useless, as if full of sand. A soul-weary beggar seeking to quench this thirst.

     Each night I speak to the heavens; a faint whisper of a prayer
     cast from parched lips that long for the tonic that is you.
     Their humble plea is for a grand celestial alignment, a
     quantum tunnel, an unbranched chain reaction, that leads me
     straight back to you.
     Every breath that passes through them infuses each cell of my
     being with air saturated by a craving for you.
     You are the only elixir that will satiate this emptiness.
What can I say? I am a thirsty chemist! Inspired (VERY loosely) by Ben Johnson's "Song: To Celia".
Written by
Michael Marro  53/M/Nashville, TN USA
(53/M/Nashville, TN USA)   
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