Deepest Blue on Glistening Yellow

The tears I cried for us

leave me now

feeling I have drunk

from our love

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Eyes wet, throat drenched

now sated, I remember

what it was

to have been so thirsty

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The first thing I lost

in my losing of me

were my tears

those tiny secreting cells

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Yellow canaries

their silence

singing of the death

that was to come

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They died then I died

So it goes

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Just yesterday my head crested

above bluest waters

gasping for air, for life

first breath, lungs inflated

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Long months, scouring

I found again those ducts

placed my mouth fleshy upon them

breathed them back to life

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And now, I am alive

You will not take

my aliveness from me

It is mine

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I birthed it, my groan

labor, screaming delivery

Now it is bone of my bone

flesh of my flesh

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Now my tears glisten

and I know I am alive

my eyes wet with life

salty, golden, divine

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