azaleas

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when bright pink azaleas fade

to a somber lonely ashen blue

and as the weak periwinkle birch

relinquishes its bloom


wrangle with the murk of the 

night slowly falling

commandeer the flooding crepuscule

and sweep it towards your snares


withstand the perils of your millieu

circumvent your conniption as

the ocean breeze stays and storms

with no trace of trvality


where the pink azaleas grow

to a roseate-like flush

there you shall lie down in the brush

and you shall tumult alone


when you once again are brightly

lighting the night sky

you shall have no limit;

you shall have no chains;


you shall have life;

lustrous, beaming, brightly gleaming

rigel, vega, and achernar alone

shall grant you their light;


ever so bright and blinding

December 2021

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