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#1016698 added September 26, 2021 at 10:08am
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A Glance Before I'm Gone: Because You're Beautiful
I would die with you now, alone.
You throw your golden hair through this shared space.
Me, incapacitated, cannot fully glance
in my immunocompromised state --
that you couldn't possibly know
how little I have left to live. But,
I drink in your bared, sun-glorified skin --
hold tightly to a vision:
the torso and one strong hand to lead,
locked in our tango stance, dreaming
dip, dip, dip me!
from red lips.

Our love echoes through unlit hours,
before my frost finally arrives.

And even if I didn't know I was dying,
I would lie with you in your deathbed,
enwrapped in my arms, synchronizing two hearts
linked to the coming disaster -- that
beauty in this life never lasts, but
fades and crumbles into the dust that
raises up another. In my chronic chair of conformity,
I peek as those tresses fall to meet
the arched back, black-tight leotard
easily revealing form I long lock
adjacent to a wretched husk of humanity,
the withering, expiring skin,
to lock eyes throughout each night
and every dawn, sung by a throng of worshippers,
who had a fraction of what we could have had,
if not divided
by a generational tide.
And ignorance that an old man can still appreciate
a figure publicly displayed,
re-inspiring utopian dreams
that could never materialize, or conceivably form
because we're all dying, honey,
and you should know that.

Don't live like you're dead, like me, but
don't hate me because you're beautiful.


9.3/26.21

Reconsidered to make edits. One last look later.

sort of a response poem
"⭐ Elegy

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