Matthew Roeser

On the eve of your graduation 
We sat mirroring each other
Each lost 
Each found 
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Oh, New spring 
Solid rivers have sprung

Melted out of madness
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I look at you 
With your petunia eyes 
And candy ribbon mouth
A smile like the first snow
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When they asked me to come here
I should have said no
Shut up in a room too small
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They were all covered in it
thick and clingy,
cloying wax
white cream laced and tilled
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The darkness that spreads along the line
To divide the foamy white sea of light
Dive, dive back into the black
Your foul deeds of crushing bone and blood 
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The night sighs
while I say my prayers
stacking them as cord wood
to burn on the altar of God
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I want to feel exceptionally strong
So I'll expose the paper dolls
And massage the cloudy chaos
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I feel out

out
among the summer fireflies
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A shudder on a winter's day
Where the ice sticks in keyholes
and the sky dreams in blue
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Life's bits and pieces have floated downstream
Now begins renewal
The reuptake of nutrients and minerals
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The sun in the sky
Tells him he still has time
He closes his eyes 
Immersing in Adam's first dawn
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Catch me upward like a leaf on the wind
Love comes this way so very rare
Sweep me up in your palm and gently
Set me down in your lap
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I dreamt last night 
Arms open heart vaulting 
I was the wind and you were the sea strong 
I crawled across your openness 
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I am storm
I am rage
Oh great one 
Where do you find yourself?
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Marvelous, what a word,
A marvelous word
Marvelous should be my name
With a name like that
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Oh sweet lips
Kiss me
Where are you?
In the dark
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I came to capture the moment
When glass fractured
at the instant of the stones impact
When the first snowflake touched your tongue
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Yes, well its like that
Sometimes

A room in a house 
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