- Non-Erotic Poetry
- After You
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I had created this thing
An ephemeral gauze
Not a veil
Not a masque
Nor even a charade
More a shell
On one side the despised world
But within...
Within was safe
Secure
Strong
Your death came at me
Like a gilded hammer
It's awful beauty shattered my world
And I was exposed
Alone
To dance with my demons
And sing the banshee song
I had become
You were the glue I used
To build my life
The mortar that bound me
To my soul
There is hate here
There is love here
There is fear here
There is joy here
And with this tape and this string
I will build anew this life
These dreams, my hopes
And I will face the onrushing darkness
Proud – and alone
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