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 Feb 2020 xavier thomas
Cc
Death
 Feb 2020 xavier thomas
Cc
I have now encountered my death
Im not actually dead
but everything inside of me is
I LIKE TO SAY YOUR NAME

I like to say
your name

when you're
not here

turn you
into sound

conjure you out of
thin air

so that you appear
before me

dressed in sound
only

memory sketching in
the rest of you

as if sound
was just an outline

and love
colours you in

adding the voice last
so I can hear you say.

"Hello you..!"
and there you are

as present
as present

can be.

I like to say
your name

when you're
not there.
flowers are poems
that lovers hold in bunches
to declare their love.
31/1/2020
I have swam, sunk and risen afloat
In the ocean of life, where the days are dark
And the storm is sudden.

Easy does it, pour the water out the boat.
And harden your heart.

Because,
They can cut your wings.
But, you shall still fly.
"Tonight's not a good night to die," he whispers.
"There is never going to be a perfect night to die!" she cries.
"Exactly," he says, and he holds her close.
I wonder if, someday, our souls will meet
When we've been long gone from this Earthly plane.
To embrace, in harmony, where the air tastes ever sweet;
Where we are spared from every ill and pain.

I know our past encounters weren't the best;
We parted ways, heartbroken, with a sigh.
But if you slip, and then I too, into that peaceful rest,
Might we put our wounded tempers far behind?

I love you, though you've since forgotten me.
I sing it to the world with fearsome wail:
"My heart, t'was waste on deafened ears, on eyes that could not see
Past the emblem of obedience in the veil."
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