Together and Lost

together in time
time on a string—
friendship in notes
of what lovers bring

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storms and fires
eons of woods
grown over and lost
to sight in the blind
communion of one

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rust and battle—
armor left, foregone
on fields for others
to follow this road

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alone
in the constant quest
of folly foregone
in others’ arms

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one day crowned
anew without a plan—
maps torn and paper burned,
life without a line

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across the banks
between the hills
on to another land
without the one

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deserts, steppes
the air I breathe
without a shade—
and limbs outstretched
to the distant moon