A Symbol of Longing
A chance of death
Circumvents your layers
Needing a planting of roots
To bring fruition
A riled weather cloud
Bounces through the sky
Requiring a flourish of trumpets
To bring rains
A chance of happiness
Pierces your armor
But you are running too close to the bone
To grasp it
A little lie
Penetrates your ears
Needing belief
To extend tendrils
A silver lining suggests itself
But will not be
Without further effort…-
Alas, oh woe, you long only for drink!
A list of pathologies
Trails from your heel
But none dare suggest
That you shed it
In the red dust
A symbol of longing
Impressed upon the Earth
Heeded by none
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From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo, as well as direct from my BookBaby store for $4.99: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/synaptic-syntactic
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Lost in Mist 