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[aid] => mick
[title] => What We Become
[time] => 2006-04-09 15:25:01
[hometext] => Most marriages end in divorce. Even in historical marriages, the spouses were not true to each other. What ever happened to true love, or was there ever such a thing?
[bodytext] => The skin around her eyes swells like the atmosphere, purple and pregnant with rain. And her lids become damp, half drawn shades. His eyes are vacant, distant dying stars, no-body's won this fight. On a corner table in a small tray, two cigarettes have burnt down to ash, long forgotten; like somewhere in the universe, two lives falling apart, shedding themselves, layer by layer, wasting away to dust, the dust of all they once were. She sits in the yard in her terrycloth robe as the moon falls to rest at her feet. Inhaling and exhaling, dove soap and vanilla musk, hair wavering silver streaks. A summer evening and the frail branches of a tree stretch out against the sky, like splintering glass. She closes her eyes and waits for the crash. The sun has departed and so has he. Somewhere in the universe, she no longer cares. They're the parting clouds among endless skies. Instead she commits to inertia, like an hourglass, waiting for the day she spills to the ground, hoping she'll take to the heavens again. From past journals she tears out old entries of love, leaving behind the ghosts of words. He’s out looking for youth, looking for life and she knows that if we live too much we’ll sooner explode. And the particles of stars, they can be anything at all. Only we don’t get to choose. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 156 [topic] => 21 [informant] => dayslong [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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