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the phoenix effect

Apr 4th, 2013
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  1. stand with your lover on the ending earth -
  2. you can hear it in the drums of his heartbeat,
  3. you can see it in the steel of her smile
  4. (in the sparkling of the knife blades of her teeth
  5. and the exuberant terror of
  6. the far-off look in their eyes)
  7.  
  8. stand with your lover on the shores of the tsunami sea -
  9. you can tell she loves the roughly whispering waves
  10. you can see he has always been
  11. a creature of the saltwater swells
  12. (of the upsetting, overflowing ferocity, the emotion
  13. that stings in the eyes and stains at the skin)
  14.  
  15. stand with your lover at the very doors of death -
  16. you can feel her hand tremble as it reaches out
  17. you can see him grasp for the
  18. doorknob in spite of the tremors
  19. (reach out and cover that hand you must hold, guide
  20. the turn of it, and when they step through,
  21. follow and smile)
  22.  
  23. stand with your lover at the end of all things -
  24. you know they were made for her once,
  25. you know it will be made by him yet again,
  26. (and for you, and by you, and you will stand
  27. with your lover in the coming inferno,
  28. and as the ashes)
  29.  
  30. stand with your lover on the beginning earth -
  31. you know you can make ink from her ashes,
  32. you know you can make paper from his bones,
  33. (from their memory and from yours,
  34. from all the others who are gone but not lost,
  35. and you can rewrite it all:):
  36.  
  37. and in the beginning, the lord spake, and he said:
  38. "let there be something new;
  39. i've grown tired of the light."
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