Stubborn silence like icy stalagmites that sharpen clarity or An esoteric cryptic city large enough to house injured inhabitants Were still performances more potent than poison, tales more truthful than Mere phrases or transparent pretensions of politeness It was the weight of sunken stares that sliced, degradations that Dismantled me into an assortment of prepositions and conjunctions Leaving splintered fragments of genderless flesh or urns of ashes Scattered across seas of sediment and earthenware silt Resurrection was a reminder of Jungian methodology or adult psychic integration While the corrupted boards of my consciousness were littered with Cellophane wrapped around gestures of civility, you suffered from the Recurring ailment of the abandoning impulse where rhapsodies with Resonating syllables were marked with faint accents of farewell so that you could Resume the role of stranger in a retreat to yet another anonymous paradise A mosaic of excuses woven into a plausible patchwork of circumstance, saying These dirges were pistols discharging lyrics trained on lamentations, only Mannequins of a mother fail to pledge strict allegiance to the superiority of tears Fate should have outlawed this faith more insupportable than air, and Skeptics stand on the edge of precipices tainted with your philosophies while Coaxing consonants are chants infused with cracked conviction and drums echo Plaintive vowels of mantras laced with meaningless prayerlike insistence Black diamonds are sprinkled asphalt on hearts held up to broken moonlight Hieroglyphs engraved on a ridge of stones overlooking Santorini or a Pageant of spiralling stars you called a constellation of children Pasted on an indecipherable skyline, these spirits never splashing colors Needed to form a coherent universe, every night was opaque while Meandering through a maze of interlocking bramble and hedge, over Haunted meadows where no winds of hope and memory blewBirth sign: Not entered
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