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Words will forever
Words will forever be the clunky steps in the eloquence of silence
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Only a boulder
Only a boulder among the glittering rocks of the river. It is not that it fights you; it only eases against the speed at which you skip in the river’s current. The depths call it harder than the ripples ever could. Have patience, world! For once, the boulder moves, the waves will touch deeper and further than one…
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Unhewn
I seek the untrained eye, the untrained hands, and the untrained tongue; in such things, do the strings lie open to the dark northern winds, and sings a music unrefined, unhewn and never repeated.
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Oh! How She commands me!
Oh! How She commands me! Every cell and atom quivers and spins to Her. Not a hair can I raise on my forearm but from Her cool breath blowing over my skin, inflating my lungs, and popping my joints alive Like a puppeteer, She dances me away and away; and I laugh in ecstasy…
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Tender is…
Tender is my lips, murmuring over my sister’s burning brow Tender is my eyes, glazing in the purple sunset of your memory Tender is my fingers, running through my mother’s graying hair Tender is my breath, smoking white in a cold night, wisps curling over in quiet longing Tender is my silence, when words refuse to sound…
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“Be,” says it.
You need not command it demand from it, nor fight it in fear. You are but a speck in its Eye floating like dust motes with not a finger on your flight’s— trajectory. You can do nothing but drift in its presence each existing for the other: To see and be seen.
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Lily
I put words to the curls of your pale tresses, speak the stain on your lips, draw a line across your face, separating the eye from its soft lashes, the slick tongue from its parted mouth and the tilted neck from its— unresisting body I name each part of you, as if to set us apart…
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At the edge of sound
Silence is absolute— for every word spoken, every prayer fervently whispered, and every curse flung out to the Wide is met with the enormity of Silence. It says nothing, yet all sounds arise from it, and all sounds die in it. It says nothing, nothing
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Dreaming through my window
Draw me a picture, I say and yellow streams through the windowpane It paints a golden canvas on my wall with the tail end of your shadow swaying gently in the dipping sun. The picture softens and sharpens as if, I sit in the center of an Eye as it blinks bleary-eyed, dreaming through my…
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If words could set you free
These black lines on white are not bars; if you gaze long enough, you will see the many doorways set ajar ]
MindWraith 