| forgive me. silence me. |
silentspring
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if red is every color but | 1 |
then each breath every last exhale. | 2 |
what of carbon dioxide | 3 |
growing flowers made from crepe paper seeds. | 4 |
tinted windows only seen | 5 |
through sun-glassed lenses. | 6 |
but your eyes were always mysteriously colored | 7 |
while mine turned silver | 8 |
with age and lost points of view. | 9 |
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lighting struck sand into glass | 10 |
twisted limbs of trees | 11 |
last I heard they landed confetti. | 12 |
thin as nothing short of barbed wire fences | 13 |
caught on sideways smiles pulling hard | 14 |
up. | 15 |
but if i close my eyes tonight | 16 |
im laughing | 17 |
while memories of long hall meetings | 18 |
fall down stairs into cardboard boxes | 19 |
packed away for netherdays. | 20 |
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silver metal necklace | 21 |
weaving silhouettes of embrace | 22 |
lost on the embarkment of next | 23 |
passing adventure | 24 |
yesterdays tuesday and tomorrows friday | 25 |
where'd june go and who forgot to mention | 26 |
lanes of dew covered trees | 27 |
waiting for fallen days. | 28 |
pass me the bottle | 29 |
we'll drink it down and sing ourselves into the morning. | 30 |
maybe you'll forget | 31 |
all those things we did. | 32 |
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if im lucky an earthquake breaks waves | 33 |
of sound kept in time with beating lungs | 34 |
silence is a deadly killer. | 35 |
so talk to me for awhile in the eves of us. | 36 |
who we used to be. why we cared | 37 |
now theres fire burning down bedposts. | 38 |
so much tossed away into flickering shadows. | 39 |
forgive me this mistake and i will return | 40 |
fully harmed. | 41 |
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