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Bid you dance with a skeleton

The real question I am asking here

up and over the stillness of cold water, I cry out into this vast world

Will your amiability bid you dance with a skeleton?

or throw her into the *** of the sea

given she trust herself enough to divulge herself in meeting thee

and from the waters you hoisted my unembellished identity with your feeble hands

I have shown you my true self as hard and ridgid

as coarse as sand

wont you display, your darkest primordial wishes

or does it manifest as all that I see you for now?

with insights into mortality will you spare just a tear

in sight of your own morality

for your wounds

it will kindle in me a thirst I've not yet quenched

even as the rolling ocean was wrenched from inside me

perhaps I'm offered this gift, I may very well present a gift for you

You lacked the experience to meet me fully through...

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