Verus Sanguine Poems

Cling loosely to that which you cannot keep
To all your riches, your comforts, your luxuries
And the perfume with which flattering, double-edged tongues
Lavish your name and rend your soul
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Every dropp of rain
More subtle than the last
My eyes fixed on the sky
As the gray clouds slowly pass
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Between dawn and dusk you've been broken to pieces
Covered by shadow and swallowed by the grave

Deep beneath the surface and moving through the earth
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I see the world for what it is now,
The wind that brings a ship to shore
And carries the storm to sink it
A glass pearl under the weight
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Comatose I lie,
Sure to rest a thousand years;
No voice could ever wake me
But that of the gong of time.
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