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And so it comes to this stalemate again:
Lives lived apart, with yearning a frozen river
And a dam of jagged glass;
An overcast existence in fluorescent light
And a largely dormant sun;
The constant waning and draining
And the awful asymmetry of hope.
Yet all the raging of the heartfloods,
All the tides and whirling eddies,
Currents churning like restless fish,
The gasping of oxygen exhausted lungs,
Clutching at the last desperate minutes
Of a losing game long lost,
All that is mute.
In a silent stalemate of still life banality,
A hollow peace dwells
Waging quiet war against
All the iniquity of fate.
But when the dam breaks -
As now and then it does -
No repose is left unstirred,
No dream left untroubled by
Those lava-cooled landslides,
Sharp as obsidian: early morning memories
Inevitably resurrected
To taunt a tethered spirit.
Lives lived apart, with yearning a frozen river
And a dam of jagged glass;
An overcast existence in fluorescent light
And a largely dormant sun;
The constant waning and draining
And the awful asymmetry of hope.
Yet all the raging of the heartfloods,
All the tides and whirling eddies,
Currents churning like restless fish,
The gasping of oxygen exhausted lungs,
Clutching at the last desperate minutes
Of a losing game long lost,
All that is mute.
In a silent stalemate of still life banality,
A hollow peace dwells
Waging quiet war against
All the iniquity of fate.
But when the dam breaks -
As now and then it does -
No repose is left unstirred,
No dream left untroubled by
Those lava-cooled landslides,
Sharp as obsidian: early morning memories
Inevitably resurrected
To taunt a tethered spirit.
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Date: 2010-10-19 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-19 06:56 am (UTC)Not the right people. :P