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i never did say
those words that met the tune
denied the building for they, they
ate free, the error of my ways
battled and wounded i moved to shield
in with muddle he dropped my hand
never mind the distance

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with flowers in my hair
breaking every refrain
you'd sing anywhere
never granted safe or true
the song i knew so well
but i, i could only hum
waiting for a cleaner air
darlin', i've felt all i lost
clenching fists, i've set you
out of light, out of rhyme
fallen heart find good rest
in answers never given
the flowers were never there

take

and here I am
tender by the half
I'll take it with me
all we ever thought
there on a bridge
"how all the words
never met a truth"

wait

Tell myself to wait, wait -
Wait with shortness of words
So forms the circle;
Heart's in for me now

lightly

if love be in for me
tell me softly
how i first, and how you knew
those waves wash over me

they carry me lightly
and hold my young heart
direct me, show me, let me
how we feel so quietly

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two fingers press my lips -
i move to wake and find
everything a lighter hue -
my pulse astir in fear;
by first light, your words
lash away my youth

a fire

tomorrow we'll see
how the night colors
a fire

moves

an ache swells within me,
moves me, runs through me
falls from my eyes
pains my chest and clinches
a terrible warmth

had i

and it's locked within
how you went so softly -
and held close my light
and to think on it now,
having been but a dream
ill-equipped in youth and time
had i but met you, before my life

grant me

and I, so green in life
question my wild efforts
there they see me hesitate
and I, so blinded by disguise
they alone win my honesty --
those eyes are out to sea

i'd hope

a woman will wait
bending and rotating
with no voice to shout
in blue rooms of time
exhaling the memories
of all he ever gave

case

kissed by a runaway
watch the ghosts dance
in the space between us
constantly in a darkness
your eyes, they hold me

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those eyes give my youth hope
but the danger of my pulse
paralyzes my step within
i hear your song; i feel a warmth --
the dance of my silence

questions

say i braided fair
in exposed expression,
you bare your teeth;
foolish by the question -
how in costume i grew

into the patchwork -
and now you whisper

He

caught in life's tangled web 

he lights the path we forget so well;
in a quiet warmth he guides the lonely 

to open and receive a promise

moves

within your hands
i move to pray
all i hear is the pulse
a beginner's melody --
moves between us and
our rhythm connects

make

make for my heart a home

anew

i found a nature within
a woodland for my escape - -
wander far but home at heart :
my life follows the vine

prelude

guided by the
prelude;
a rhythm for me
to hum, to breathe --

within the heartbeat
his voice, his hands
find me

yours

i've built a heart
within your hands