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A Time That I Miss You

 
And there's a time that I miss you
and I am vanquished by a need for a
syntax I do now possess
With effort
comes coherence
striking me deep in my heart
For I
a
fragment on a wasteland of
silver
a
life on a time of gold
am lost amidst
more changes than I care to rank
are behind me

bear my hate with
forebearance
all those of you who cling to life

bear my forebearance with
hate
all those of you who
cling to my life

with the thready swiftness of
molten gold through
amber
carving channels of heat in
those who do not believe
I am the time
I am the weather
with movement
with stark molecules
I shake you
I am
shifting and switching
like frost on a knife

6/22/79

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