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blue light bends like any other.

varun

a blue light flickering	1
in a corner of this room	2
might lead	3
to your definitions, and reasons; closer still	4
to what it means to be you.	5
what then, when language does not speak	6
for us? can we be still, muted,	7
while our kens array?	8

i caught myself between	9
catching glimpses of trees in	10
puddles wrinkling with rain	11
and staring at the sky-	12

ironed will to tear sight, arrest	13
a symbol of what lies behind.	14
spent screaming eons	15
to regain balance	16
in silence.	17

this	18
dis-joint	19
broken	20
perception	21
blur	22
is the only place i feverishly spiral in sevens	23
and lose control	24
of belief	25
lose faith	26
in belief	27
ease out the creases of any skin	28
which resembles an experience	29
or a desire:	30

re-emerge	31
from within the shadows;	32
they are tired of you hiding amongst them, you-	33
restless, and a curse	34
upon their calm.	35
is it not time for us to sleep? i can hear	36
breathing- this room	37
warmer, heavier,	38
the light bending	39
to a swirling-dark corner now.	40

there are places, on the tips	41
of your thumbs,	42
they can grow deserts draped in blankets of dusk	43
out of nothing if only	44
you would put your fingers to them, stretch	45
the nothingness between your palms	46

let us sleep, for once; not let	47
this dark womb, expectant with a blue flicker	48
keep us from dreams.	49

08/17/08

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