You, who I once knew
When we were high,
When I was high and desperate
For destruction by your perfect lust.
When my bright life loved only shadows
Failing to escape the dusk...
I'd never known your kind of kindness,
In your voice,
Your sudden touch,
That I could darkly love;
To love before the dusk.
If only I could now
Give you my soul -
My whole, strange soul -
Here on the sand, in the full sun
Before you pass away to the dusk,
Before I pass away
Or drown,
And pass away into dust...
For I could not...
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Gathered on This Beach: Poems & Perspectives for a Converging World
Poetrya student's writings, inspired by nature and science, and accumulated throughout the early days of the Internet, these writings explore expectations for the expressive 'convergence' to come. (revised edition 2014, with some alterations) ALT. BLURB: ...
