the other side | poem

poetry

out there, beyond the warmth of love whispers

everything will be okay. you become the away

from common touch and long thoughts, goodbye person.

the presence of finality forms the shape of swift departure

for a train or plane or bus

you now exist within the public.

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out there comes the arrival of unfamiliar streets

first read of in books, only to enter dreams until desire

convinces you, time will always go on. 

and you go on, lured in by the scents of hot flesh 

foreign bodies with those eyes that know more

about where you stand,

than you ever could.  

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