Leo Divine

Green eyes,
Green from envy,
Not from birth.
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Tired, tired,
So tired of living,
So tired of breathing in
To hold within this gift of life
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All of my life
I had just one desire -
To own a red bicycle,
But I never did.
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I wish that I would die tonight
Before my parents wake
& leave my vacant, youthful shell
Horizontal, on virgin-white sheets.
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Awake, but not awake;
My mind keeps my eyes veiled
&, by his charm, he lures me - far -
Down his well-worn, fruitless trails.
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Two minus signs
Across thine eyes;
Two O's are over mine.
Oh, my dreaming beauty,
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(For Peter Kay)

A human-so-Kind;
He Kills hate;
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The Lough Ness Monster,
The days of old,
The end of the rainbow,
The pot of gold,
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(For Peter Kay)

Sweet Peter eats sweet sugar beets,
Because he can't eat wheat -
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I saw her in the garden - it was night.
I could scarcely see the plants,
The trees, the flowers, the vines,
But I saw her alright,
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Some people, sometimes, get the blues;
But, me, I always get the greys.
Across the barren sky inside
They wax & then they wane.
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Lance follows Nancy
Through the streets of Gdańsk;
No, this isn't stalking;
This is a dance;
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You are not unclean,
My Hungarian Queen.
You have not lived in sin,
My little Ms Magdalene.
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The calm after the storm inside
Leaves plain the truth the storm did hide:
The deathless joy to be alive
& all but this: the devil's lies.
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