Daniel, Who Dressed in Blue and Watched the Stars

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Darling Daniel lies in blue,

your nature’s dark and somber hue.

You wear it in your sometimes glance-

a past that bears a recollection;

a thought of a thought of a dream

of a blazingly empty sky

singing silent, starry songs of somewhere

else.

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We gaze into the blinding heat

of one thousand dying suns.

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You, in blue, close enough to touch

to smell, to taste

(like ice cream melting under a woolen blanket of summer)

but a universe away,

and I alone, invisible and nothing,

(you everything-

wise and young and foolishly, selfishly

giving yourself to those who don’t love you)

trying to grasp a name that names that which you are-

my love, my bane, my dream, my imposed reality,

Daniel.

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You are Daniel, and I dress you in blue

to match my soul-

a hue somber and dark.

Nature’s your blue, in lies,

darling Daniel.