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I KEEP YOU
IN A SPECIAL PLACE
RESERVED
FOR THE FIRST
MORNING SONG
AND THE LAST
SOARING
NOTE
THAT COMES
IN THE EVENING
WHEN SECRET
DREAMS
OCCUR
OF WHO YOU
ARE
AND WHERE
WE WERE,
ONCE IN A
DREAM
LONG AGO
THAT HAS
TRAVELED THE
YEARS
TO DIFFERENT
STOPS ON A
JOURNEY
THAT NEVER
ENDS,
GOING
FROM BEND
TO BEND
SOMETIMES
SCREECHING
TO A HALT
WITH PAINFUL
NOTES
YOU RAIL
AT ME FOR
MY HESITATION,
BUT I HAVE
MY REASONS
THE SEASONS
OF MY HEART
DEMAND
ATTENTION,
THAT WHICH
YOU CANNOT
GIVE,
FOR YOU
LIVE
IN ANOTHER
WORLD,
LEAVING ONLY
ONE LINK
OF MUSICAL
MAGIC
BETWEEN US,
AND THIS
MORNING
WHILE I
LISTEN
SECRETLY
QUIETLY
JOYFULLY
IN AWE
OF YOUR
ENDLESS
TALENT
FOR THE SOUNDTRACK
OF THE WORLD,

SUNDAY DINNER
CLEANING DAY
SITTING DOWN
WHEN TO OUR DISMAY
WHILE LIGHTING
THE CANDLES
THERE CAME SUCH
A POOF
OUTSIDE THE HOUSE
NEAR THE FAR ROOFS
IT SOUNDED LIKE POPPING
OR MAYBE LIKE CRACKLING
REGARDLESS OF ALL
SOMETHING WAS LACKING,
WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER
AND SAID “WHAT WAS THAT”,
WHILE SUDDENLY NOTING
THE DARKNESS WAS
FLOATING
INTO THE ROOM,
AND THEN THE GLOOM
PREVAILED,
THE DEVIL WAS
SMILING
AND VERY BEGUILING
PULLING THE PLUG
AND SLIDING THE RUG
FROM UNDER OUR TOES,
WE SHOOK OUR HEADS,
WHILE NIBBLING
QUIETLY
FROM OUR SUPPER
PLATES,
THERE WASN’T A
REASON
FOR US TO WAIT,
I SENT HIM DOWN
STAIRS
TO FETCH
THE BIG LANTERN
HE HAD SCOFFED AT
ME FOR GIVING ONE DAY,
BUT NOW WOULD
BE PERFECT
FOR FINDING HIS
WAY,
IT APPEARED WE
WERE SUNK
IN A DIM
TIMELESS FUNK
WHILE THE TRUCKS
MADE THEIR
WAY UP THE HILL,
THEY RUMBLED
ON PAST
IN A QUIET
WAY,
SOLEMN
AND KNOWING
THEY WERE IN
FOR A STAY,