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Whatever you are

I acknowledge your shade is moving

Potent and cool

Maybe empty

For where there were mars

Now the summer hides uneasy

And whatever you are

Made it so

Dim lights unbury you

Broken words and crumbling stone

Softly loom the night affliction

From a blackened benediction

From the thickening darkness

Soundless

Tyrant-eyed / rejecting light

An uneven crawl of hunger - slow steps of neglected dances

Unremitting flower of shadow

You have called to me in slumber

Stole out from your quiet collection

Latched your veins about my stupor

Dim lights uncover you

Broken words and crumbling stone

Cautious is your circulation

Toxic flux of cruel intention

Whatever you are I acknowledge your sight expanding

And somewhere in the room you are breathing

For where I was lost only you could fill my vision

And whatever you are made it cold