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Deciphering

Love love love

The riddle of the Sphinx

Love poems,

eternal hieroglyphs

and lovers,

desperate archeologists

attempting to decipher

the ruins.

Dead languages

that haven't been spoken

for thousands of years,

the naive attempt to

resuscitate an extinct civilization,

sit pretty on the tongue

because things are sweeter

when they’re lost.

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Published: Jun 16, 2013
LinesWords: 1651

Notes: Sola est paradisi paradisum perdidit.

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