" Pour mon Daemon qui Suit "~ My Demon Follows

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My demon follows me

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I will sing to you

my darling,

my demon

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It is as if

it never happened

so long ago

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Circling your beauty

with patterns of flight

an untamed wind

following movements of light

within my mind

and within my soul

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I circle around you

skybound

and I find another voice

that speaks the name of love

weaving threads of starlight

into my song

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When darkness comes

I will still sing 

for you, my love

my demon

I will not turn away

from your eyes

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We have become pain~bearers

both of us

you know this truth

as much as I

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Here we hold the searing heat

and the darkness

of each life

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How can we manage

without our laughter

and still you come to me

with this as your gift

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How I hate you

for the beauty that you bring

reminding me

to live once again

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I cannot hold on

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I wish I never saw this light

that is burning within you

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I will have only scars

from this flame

that remains too bright

surrounding your spirit

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There will be nothing left of me

and maybe that is best

...I remember golden light

fused into the arching waves

of an erupting sea

and the silver shimmer

of stars

and planets

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Circling you

my love

Light is always 

what we need it to be

~ and never what it actually is

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Appearing

and then vanishing

inside 

of our breath

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" Ethique Ancienne"~ Ancient Ethos

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The Ancient Laws

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There is a sacred beauty within everything

the holy mark of light

within each breath

each word

each movement of life

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This silence fills me

and I cannot turn away from

the eloquence of it

and yet, 

you ask me to shape language

around you

painting, somehow

the symbols that return us

to grace

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Poetry is prayer

or at least a reaching toward you

for it is any distance from you

that I cannot bear

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Fill my mouth 

with shapes of light

that I may speak your name

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Fill my hands 

with every color of mercy

that pleases you

and 

brings you close to me

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"El Vestigio de la Risa Nocturna" ~ The Vestige of Night Laughter

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The Vestige of Night Laughter

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We are all given darkness

and an accompanying light

whatever is lost to us in the shadows

we can only find inside the sable path

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only the dark angel

unveiling the night within us

and the ethereal fluid 

the laughter of starlight

traces of silver motioning North 

 the mystical compass

inside his sable cloak

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it calls to all of us

the hidden journey of night

what we have lost into darkness

we cannot find inside of light

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 open the hermetic veil

 the cloak blackened mystery

potent uncertainty, fluid with grief

 enter this darkness

 with it's trace of silvered laughter

 the North Star, glittering of steps

paths etched of light

 a motion of truth

toward wholeness 

 the harmony of opposites

a spherical holiness

the paradoxical embrace

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We are guided by dark laughter 

through the shadow lands

a hidden map of starlight

inside of our breath

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