YOU RISE TO SPEAK

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CONVENIENT GAPS

 

You rise to speak

and echo out

these words of hope


but I am lost

in delusion

hung by a rope

 

These dreams you have

 are still held dear

to you in heart


but in drunken fervor

I am inclined

to lose interest in part

 

The pain your eyes

reveal reduce

me to sobbing


You have spoken

the dreams and hopes

still a throbbing

 

I did not hear

the shout of night

or your love call


Instead I pour

another drink

and take a fall

 

The end of day

is dancing thru

clouds of delight


I can not feel

the emotions

you convey tonight

 

The dance of Gods

is forbidden

and we are just lost


I have fallen

and can’t get up—

that is the cost

 


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