Janine Ecks

Your ghost on the horizon calls my name.
My arms reach out, yanking against the chains.
I cannot reach; again my will is drained...
I fall, I crush your memory to my core.
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See this shore, this tree, born of this sea?
So, my lover, so are we.
Now all the pieces fit,
Completing the circle in a world of entropy...
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Legions of lies, and my logic
In the face of illusion flies!
Was anything true that was uttered by you
Who triggered the heart's demise?
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The fire is creeping closer.
The nova has arrived.
The sun has blinked some time now;
Too long the world's survived.
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How many wads of crumpled paper
Have gone into that trash can in the corner of your kitchen
Twenty million words of pain
Delicately crafted verse of desire
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Twenty-two droplets of blood from my vein
Swallowed up by this pitch-black abyss
Vanish forever, a stream of me drained,
An unfair exchange for death's intimate kiss.
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Forbidden fruit
Passion in the eye, but ever mute
Sudden as a sweet caress is had and lost
Intrigue flickered on
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Autumn leaves rain down
Painting blood across the sky
My heart bleeds for you
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As one day I mourned my faraway love
And questioned the powers that be,
I looked off and saw a jagged cliff;
Beyond it, the deep blue sea.
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Divine grace,
I cannot remember your face.
Good to heal,
I'd hate to feel.
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Saw a picture of you in full color.
Pastels lit your face -
Shifting, contorting, life of a thousand demons
Swirling beneath your countenance.
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Dead man dreaming in the dust,
You must recognize my lust.
Where you've gone has no return,
But I go too, because I yearn.
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Such waterfalls adorn those crags
Where mountains reach into the clouds.
The wanton shepherd never lags
In luring one to dropp her shrouds,
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In this pirouette twisting will we flip and turn?
Expeditious retreat I will cast 'fore I play,
Unabashedly romping while all the signs say,
'Tread so lightly, my lady, or bound to get burned! '
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One more reservation is floating away...
So many I've shed now that what can I weigh?
Cleansed by the lapping of white-lidded waves,
Unfettered, I'm fearless and free.
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