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Devotion


Devotion

Remains a phantom prisoner of

The night 

Shivering with life unseen in daylight

Big silver stars

The moon

Masters of disguise

In sterile white uniforms

The methods and mechanisms of control

 

Disappearing from the streets of Man

In lunar orbit

Lost in space

 

Love

Should be pockets of daydreams

Simple

Raw smiles that are nothing more than smiles

Comortable silences

Gentle truths

Peeling brittle onion membrane

Eye to eye in naked, gruesome honesty

Everything is here and whole and lovely

 

Love should be 

Symbiotic

Devotion should not be granted

To the night's parasites

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