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Breathing between red rhythms,
amongst the still stalking shadows
we rest, tenderly dazed but tight
with angered faces looking down
swaying in a musty fever.
Dark aurora whispers
string our fervent chords
weaving us into pure darkness.
With our voices,
gripping heated twines
we tie our hands
and bind our feet,
and burn our minds.
Imbusing trust
entrenching wild certainty.
The fuel from the stove of seclusion
burning lightly beneath us

Like thorns,
beautifully smearing our restless lips
as the faint breath of hope collides between our ears
languidy throbbing
till everything is muted.
A hostile embrace.
A sharp solitude
we share and love and need
with an ache, we pull and push and swing
in timeless depths
grazing against a chamber of quaking tears.
Pendulums in painful surrender.
So strong, so determined
to feed, rest, and protect
from an echoing
miasma of betrayal.

Stars will close their eyes in sorrow,
as cascades of love and lucifer
break and blend
into conflicting
oblivion.
a world of contrasts
bleeding so beautifully
into our bodies
and on those bleak, black shores.
above a static weak sky,
we are strong shadows,
swimming in silent limp lakes.
Daring to move between tempting fractions
of thrilling hues and stretching desires.
Treading till rims of risk.
our thirsty veins
cut the course of sympathy

The waves of disgrace scratch,
Fall on to our backs
as fear rolls and tumbles away into the glowing distance
we float and drift amongst a current of nature's sighs.
Holding our hands before every gate.
warmth by the clutch of trust
the grasp of fear.

Our dream is the desert
a lingering trance
ethereal, listless
hollow horizon.
Together.
We release our captive souls
and shower our skin
from the dirty cinders
of time and sin.