By Ali
Date: 2003 Nov 07
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Sometime Lovers

Sometime lovers--
I am widow of this world, a captured
Grace that haunts the edge
Of Silence, my passion pacing
Like a ghost that breathes beneath
My red-star skin; sometimes I whisper,
Sometimes I scream, but I revel
In the moment, always.

Every heartbeat is battered well
Against my soul--a sound that pounds
Like hell against the Dark; one night
Beyond your careful calculations,
Shadow over shadow over shadow;
I cannot tell which shade of Night
Is mine, or yours, or no one's--
We are but sometime lovers,
Paying homage to the night.