Orange

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Please
Know what I don’t know to ask
Hear my whisper in your sleep
Awaken
Take my Hallows’ Eve hair into your hands
Pledge to me
Light a candle
Taste of orange
Ward-back this oddest of aches
Please

god dust

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god i miss you.

when you birthed me, did you know it would be so?

did you know i’d tick the days as a prisoner

-chalk dust covered fingers-

reliving my crime at the turn of every corner, 

without hope for redemption?

At The Door

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You’re going to guide you to truth

Step now into the absolute 
With open eyes 
Fling far your wishbone
For what virtue
Demands you
Walk blind in the grey

Stutter-step and stiff-arm
Nay-say all you need
Wrestle with doubt and despair 
But befriend and deal kindly with time
There’s a lifespan to learn
And eternity to spend

TIGER

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Symmetrical stripes we have, yours and mine
Though my left ear more dark
And your left hand more bright

Our eyes both have the highlights of hope
To the left of your nose a freckle all your own
Matching the one on my chin

Yes my wings are muted 
While yours bear what color
We wear the same bold heart within

Bound

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Cottontail Cottontail 
Just where are you off to
I’m the leader of the pack of one
Who will track you

Darting from the underbrush 
What did you have to fear
Stroked my curiosity 
To learn what your ears hear

Now the journey’s on my sweet
Give chase to my sinew 
Your re-fu-sal for fits and starts
Sets my re-solve anew

Artful 

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Our skin
Isn’t covered up yet 

Our reason 
We stir early 
Rush to the light
And offer up proof we made it
Another night
Isn’t written 
Over
Yet

But soon
For it’s almost
September