You took me on a walk,
And told me not to cry...

I have known rain and weathered hands
stuck in time from a war in land...

i don't remember the last
time i broke down, crying over...

Nature's velvet crush
will shed illicit beauty...

I am frightened for the ones
who leap onto faith but don't...

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I yearn to hate the night, to grimace...

Before you and I were stirred
into vanishing trickles of taste...

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If we sketch our name in the beach's garden...

What You have done
is not taught at dawn's...

There is no such thing as a good cop
when it's a system of abuse they uphold...

She speaks to me in vibrancies
I've never known...

I'll remember every sunset you helped me
live to see, the moments of clarity when we...