deep beyond desire's flame
and burned above impurities
with cat and mouse unending
the will to win unbending
kneel--as yet denial
a bite upon your lips
which both we taste
tickles and intoxicates
and burns away
the sodden grey which teases
to awash our shades...
yet ever pause
among reflections of sorrow's prize
despairing, joy
and the recapturing
of love's solitary promise...
to wait out the thunder,
to longing see the stars above
while a single beam of life
parts
the misted velvet
and the lost ones return to your shores
awaiting but the call to your arms
to rest again,
but a moment,
in the dwindling flame...
and in shades unfolding,
the dance,
the slow playing of the lightning upon two loves
entwined
in the embers' glow
and sparks
and fly to heaven's door...
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