Survival

apocalypse
of the heart
survival
an accident
blood and wine
to see me through
shadowed valleys
with scarce a road
but cross I did
and found my way back

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Developed

I was developed
in the dark room
taking shape
as a photograph
first faintly shadowed
slowly becoming
more clearly defined
a subject in negative
do not
expose to light

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Uncertain

I am not sure
or as certain as
I used to be
The question has
arisen occasionally
about what was real
Sometimes I doubt
the thoughts that I feel
Where there moments
I really spent with you
or is this romantically untrue
solitude bearing in on
me, maybe
I haven't found the time
to examine all of me...

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Driving moments

Driving the streets
or freeways
cars, peopled windows
Their mouths move
but you don't hear them
The cas have
come to life
powered by robots
going to... coming from
everywhere
but getting nowhere
really...
because there's always
the returning
motor driven cycles
of life's moments...

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Remember me not

I have felt guilty
without apology
offered
eternal estrangement
with no returns
please discard
after using...
I have learned to practice
selective inattention...
Remember me with anger
it is much better
than disinterest,
pity, bitterness
or don't remember me
at all

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Your gift to me

I sit alone in the cafe where we met,
the rain slowing collecting in pools outside...
like all the tears I shed for you over the years,
they reflect the cloudy skies, and passing storm...
my loss was never too much to bare...
for I know I lived and loved,
I felt and cared, your gift to me,
before you were taken away...

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A time of release

Death breaks the chains that have kept us from being free,
our souls no longer bound to a world of struggle,
it's not a time to be feared, it's a time of release.