Take Two

Tangled elbows and tender knees

Tastes of loves sweet aftermath

Our kisses burn and only lead

To smoke and whitewashed ash

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Desperately traipse familiar paths

Cares to the wind, with tattered maps

Wanting for more than we can have

Momentary hearts, relapsed

*

Ghosts reappear and fade away

As we deny mistakes we’ve made

Dipping our toes in muddy lakes

Thoughtlessly delve, until we wake

*

Shadows and dust, of fragile flesh

That pleasure makes

While spirits mesh

Defying fate and common sense

*

A fabled front

Unending wish

Hearts want what they want

Under false pretense

*

But, life is a dream

Time breezing past

A fleeting scene

Mere happenstance

*

And we the pawn in nature’s game

Taking a chance at fantasy

The need to know intimate plans

Enabling hope’s finalities

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Then moving on to new romance

Defying fates and second take

In love and life’s unending dance

Like it was ever ours to make