always were a dream
yet i loved you anyway
how you really were
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you won't see my scars
nor taste salty tears i cried
to be me for you
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from her tiny death
renewed by love's sweet embrace
her phoenix risen
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do you see yourself
peeping out between my words
our little secret
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life so far has been
feasts of pain and poetry
regret for dessert
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not eve of eden
woman of my paradise
sinning in delight
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where to put this love
this overflowing fountain
no one seems to want
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sips of love exchanged
we're drinking heaven's honey
brewed in passion's heat
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that thing that he did
along her neck down her back
fed the fires inside
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you are my phoenix
dying in my loving arms
rising as renewed
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caressed by water
set afire by noonday sun
intimate nature
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within her garden
a secret wildflower grows
no tame hothouse bloom
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intruding darkness
opens up for a moment
as your love shines through
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steps forth from shadows
candlelight revelation
illuminating
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i read you daily
gather ideas from your words
even if you don't know
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i know how to give
unconditional love
that i've never known
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we're each different
people don't fit in boxes
each one shaped like love
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yes i'd paint you nude
hang the picture in my halls
show my depths of love
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Abitlity destroyed
Yet the desire remains.
Even in a eunuch
In memories
And fantasies,
Cancer does this, you know.
Leaves the want,
Destroys the way.
So now...
I channel my love
Into the words I write,
The images of
History and imagination,
Seeking the goddess,
The woman who,
Can understand and,
Reciprocate.
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i quit i give up
life and love defeated me
i will wait to die
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i've given my all
and they have taken my all
i have nothing left
if i disappear
look for me behind the moon
perhpas you'll find me
or perhaps i'll flee
into death's welcoming arms
where none can follow
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i have only love
nothing else is in my side
and no one wants it
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love is a free thing
with no real restrictions
or boundaries
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never shame my love
gladly do what love expects]]
because that's your desire
Donovan Baldwin