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By j. knipp Date: 2004 Feb 03 Comment on this Work [[2004.02.03.22.14.7641]] |
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"All I do, I can still feel you. (You remain...) All I do, I can still feel you. (I am sustained...) All I do, I can still feel you." -Trent Reznor Why have you made me harvest you? I was dearly trying to admire only the sight of my lotus blossom. You have asked of me to leave you in the water, to watch as you slowly drift away. So that I may call to you on a distant shore as the soul we owned rends. I think I may have been able to agree to this fate. Maybe... if your lips had not been so contrary. Had your eyes not gathered the sun like butterflies to pollen. I needed you to wilt and wither, to deride and doubt me. Not sing siren's songs and tempt and taunt me. Perhaps the lotus blossom is not aware of the sway it holds over me. Perhaps you don't know I find you to be the most beautiful creation God has deigned to manifest. I had to wade into the river to hold you in my arms one more time; then, only then, I would have let the river take me. |