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xxiii. a p h e l i o n

Pining for warmth, gentle heat

rhythmic breaths in sync with heart beat,

a craving to tenderly soothe,

for you, an elixir of immaculate youth

when a blindfold made,

of love, for gloom a trade

and of darkness hath clamped

with an unwavering, steady grip

an elaborate epiphany I can't skip,

unto a completely unsuspecting

reluctant and hesitating

yet an unyielding me,

however meant to be

is sombre, yet futile.

Devilish doubt plagues me so,

Deliver me from a plight of woe,

for I ponder about your

grimly intangible presence.

In your melancholy absence

I am nothing but a mere

tenebrous, dull, gloomy moon

in rapidly running out time,

without the sure and sublime

omnipresent, glorious sun.

I am, but reduced to one

reliant, yet Cupid-struck,

one with unfortunate luck

An eternal albeit forsaken

a nexus of passions so misshapen

a miserable acolyte, with

our rendezvous, a tempting myth

of you, the shimmering star

for whom I wage perpetual war

and I, the unlit, dim planet

our destinies perdurably set,

however forever imprisoned

in this surely impregnable

indestructible, unchangeable

one of unbreakable penitentiaries

a tale unforgotten for centuries,

of what they call a p h e l i o n.

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aphelion (n) (astronomy) : The point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid or comet when it is farthest from the sun.

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