once

a magician!

painting the eye
with dancing colors

LOVE!

yes!

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so meaningless now

now

the  dying embers

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only the dying
embers

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we are old
before we are even young

we are sold
before birth

to demons

we have learned
to pretend!

LOVE!

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manipulations!

gyrating bodies!

LOVE!

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walking naked in the rain

the broken glass streets

the tormented school yards

the busted motherhood dreams

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once

a magician!

dancing the colors
delighting the eye

the dying embers

only
dying embers