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Three Seconds
If you could give me 3 seconds of your time
I'd likely split them up.
Stretch each out
Across a canvas
Just to sketch you out
For an unending moment.
Spread oil around in color swirls.
And dip into the amber mud
Of all your love.
Scrape tender azure
With my fingertip.
And feel all the ways you fashion yourself sky-pure.
Maybe sink brush
Into the dewy green
Of your eyes
That cry -
Shades of a rainforest gone by.
Dare I taste
The mustard paint
Of your soul?
Darkened sunshine
Soaked in evening riverflows.
While shadows grow
And incandescent Summer glows
Ebb away -
Swallowed by nightshade.
Now I can see my palette
Awash in lambent pearl
As moonlight
Comes through in crescent streams -
The definition
Of your virgin essence.
If I could capture all this
In 3 seconds
Within your presence,
My eyes would swell
And satisfied, I would conjure
A full breath.
