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Morning you lay sleeping |
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Your small body clinging tightly to mine |
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With frightening dependency |
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Life defining impossible to betray |
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And with that |
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The mattress rose |
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Set adrift on the burgeoning emotional tide |
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Colliding with the once stationary objects |
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Of an uninhabited life |
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What had been concealed |
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Was exhaled from god knows where |
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Colour-drained unsalvageable |
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Shape shifting |
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And with function relinquished |
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Resigned from service |
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Two blue sleeping bags |
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Nudged against one another |
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Bearing the once warm imprint of our bodies |
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The sun-baked stone garden |
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Retracted its promise |
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It was cold in that place of perpetual summer |
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If you were afraid you didn't show it |
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You who were born bearing the face |
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Of irrepressible grief |
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So as not to disappoint you |
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I lay motionless |
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Rapt by the rise and stall of your breathing |
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Your fingertips and thighs |
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Quietly affirming my place at your side |