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it rained again tonight

so lovely and strong

and I love you still

only ten more lifetimes long

the chill remains ever so faithfully

with me

though no matter how hard I struggle

to ignore its dampening brush

the quality of the moment throws

played cards of farce at me in

exchange for shards of my newly reclaimed

sanity

like some cool, clever con artist

would for the object of his first crush

was I born so unavoidably exposed

or was I just unluckily predestined to

never clearly see

oh how this rawness so frighteningly felt

burns unapologetic holes in my grim battered

soul

why, I was utterly bothered, bedazzled and

bewitched by the mere thoughts so sweetly

expressed by thee

but was the singular attraction solely of my

own foolish making

or without any prior knowledge had circumstance

dealt me her departing ace

if my heart weren't so cold at present

why I feel that it would be breaking

I've become direction less now even in my own

feeble doubts

so sheathed now are they by this double crossing

shame

beneath more than an ocean thick filled with

icy confusion

I break the surface so beautifully through the

pain

to weakly wave goodbye to all the fog and mystery

of a spicy illusion

and swallow the grim but obvious fact that it all

is indeed between us

quite thoroughly over

the level of comfort shall never again be

achieved

as through the struggle of this poem

your swift defection and loss

I have boldly grieved..................

(Sept. 24, 1997)