all your softness
gentle perfection
love that loftiness
sweet kisses
some blissful inflection
mastered
with that love
collection
still deafening thunder
then torrential rain came
washing torrid love away
bright light was lost
horrid darkness
felt like prison
love's barren starkness
so numb
I felt nothing
but this
miscommunication
failed words
just continue streaming
dreaming about
some lost company
platitudes of derailed thoughts
disastrous exits
existence with every
placard entrance
something from
every direction
so what if
we had stayed
that wasted horse
we beat to death
what if equis
had risen up
broken loose
just run away
yet those
treasonous stars
still held us
we were
soundly blinded
we were
somehow
magically entranced
literally ensconced
that infernal liturgy
locking us in place
perhaps it was terminal
just the blazing sun
finally setting us free
what a crazy mix
so mixed up
so much sighing
crazed and yawning
from the very dawning
displacement
of the human race
contemplate
tying us up
try as it always does
not just a hiccup
more like tsunami
destructive earthquakes
our blazing relationships
razing to burning us down
hurt's caustic ash
scattered
spattered
across contested ground
even life changing floods
recall placid streams
become raging rivers
dashing hopes and dreams
still something
sacred found
once naked love
gave me shivers
needles up and down
love's credential spine
love's kundalini river
such a sensuous snake
venomous love
makes me shiver
poetry that poison spake
made me quake and quiver
something other
life shattering
something invested
regretfully ingested
other than best things
from the zee zee top
what about an x x cross
embossed on a sacred tree
gifts that can't be returned
like your gentle softness
something I wish
I could keep forever
passion
where love is concerned
such gentle perfection
something rich
something clever
love's true reflection
never cheap or misbegotten
memories of dreams
things that can't be forgotten
what we once had
true love it seems
we truly keep
born out of that place
we both once knew
softness in your eyes
beauty
lighting up your face
your daily guise
such gentle perfection
love was truth
a righteous thing
never hidden
no thoughts nor lies
sensuality in that place
love's perfect invention
such special love
where love wants to live
glorious without disguise
if love hasn't been locked away
after all those destructive storms
if somehow we are still alive
without all those
stolen perfect bits
carved out of lives
excised from hearts and souls
perhaps every love story
might end up to be
something more perfect
love that is more complete
kisses we rely on
stars we wish upon
lighting up all those
dark lonely streets
we've sadly walked along
discover some place
that builds on right
special redeeming places
of love and light
but then molten lava
envelopes our hopes
earthquakes haunt us
shaking all our dreams
here stands a pillar of salt
love has become
dried out nature
a desert system
sandy and crystalized
emphasizing chemistry
love's wavy fickleness
perhaps an atom of tenderness
even those raging storms
could decide to halt
then what
should love become
sultry days and chemistry nights
soft caressing kisses
performed with ideal tenderness
addressing consummate love
under love's perfect thumb
if fires of hell
were to burn us up
love would still exist
a perfect softness
forever seeking loftiness
love's sweet soft realm
shall never cease
for true love
will persist
faith and truth
and perfect peace

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