- Feeling,
touching life...death...
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- By Chath
pierSath
- July 22, 1998
– Wednesday
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- Feeling, touching
life – every inside of it feeling, touching death.
- I read your
facial texture with my desert palm, full of sand
- To take you with
me as my death, with you feeling me as if it is your last.
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- The bitter half
of you I leave.
- The sweeter half
I take as air and water, as love for my soul.
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- You in my tongue,
you the force in my power
- My wake in you
the dew that clings to the morning grass.
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- You are dark, I
am light. When I am light, you are weight,
- Kiss trespassing
my lips with your sorrow.
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- You are sadness
in my joy, the other half of a cup to be filled;
- The other wheel
for my humanity to rise and wake as one, inseparable.
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- I am gravitating
to you, attracted, and magnetized by your sensual force –
- Fully aware of
this fragmented, shattered mirror of oneness I cannot give.
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- Your pain is my
pain righting wrong. Our wrongs together make right what is broken.
- Our vow is
inseparable – incomparable to anything that ever died.
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- My life is a
sacrifice on your behalf. I am willing, giving myself to you as my lover ---
- Complimenting
every affliction to arrive and depart on time,
- Derive things up
to speed, ascending and descending with you always
- On opposite of
the same end as two to one part of every human we are the same.
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- My life you fill
with songs. My emptiness you fill with hope.
- Your warmth burns
my chills. With you a light within me is lit.
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- Were you to
leave, I would not be able to thrive and defy the cold of this sunless
world.
- Do not go and
leave me to spin with dizziness! Do not become the bird leaving my tunnel.
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- Do not scar my
heart that has you as the force behind its pulse. I have
- Come crossing
bridges above the great sea looking to see how I can open your arms.
- I want your
warmth for my chills, your shawl of love wrapped around me when I am sad.
- Tug me in your
wings for I am lonesome.
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- Angel, oh, love
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- Open your house
of silence. I want forever in your earth of oneness.
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