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a lesser beauty.

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Published: May 14, 2009

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_{a lesser beauty.

i ran through the darkness for an eternity to find you
lost my way in a world that never was
and it took me years to find the light.
spent my days drinking some miracle elixir that
helped me escape the void in the hollow of my ribcage
where i sometimes think i slept away infinity.

you are a bond of flame licking away at my skin, connected
to a deep vast ocean somewhere in the islands of destiny
you are building wooden rafts to take you to the new world
where you waste two months from a year trying to be three
halves of a whole and fighting away the feeling that you hold
parts of another's memory in your troubled shaken head.

i am the swirl of colour when you stare too long at the burning sun,
i will set you alight if you don't watch your footing with the utmost care.

on a clock tower we carved keys and chakrams out of sheets of steel
[if i had known you were going to walk out on us, i would have put
them on chains to rest against the concave of your neck beneath
the thick black coat you wear to keep at bay the sting of winter.]
and when i told you that i knew nothing of your other life,
i know and knew that you could see straight through
my fire lies into the green beneath my gaze.

a whisper:
i have found you, finally i have found you again, staring at the twilight through keys of steel.}