Stranger's Reflection
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I sit waiting for change
Ideas exploding as pollen
From a blossoming
Flower caught in a light breeze
Yet trapped in a strangers
Arms as I am yet to
Know myself
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My heart's in flux
While images so distant
To my recorded thought
Pass by loneliness of
Time infuses knowledge
Lacked truest meted mind
I stare deeply into
The blanket darkest
Night
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Swallow up my dreams
Eat whole my shallow indulgence
Free my imagination to
Inspirations waking hour
Or nail tight a pine lid to my
Casket so bitter hatred
Colours blackest hues to
My palette
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Indifference become the brush
To my bleak canvas
That pain will be as tears
In rain washed away
As all that ever mattered
Follows swiftest current to
Fatalistic grave
Of life
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