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I read this in a book last night and thought it was really pretty. And before people start freaking out or gossping or jumping to conclusions or whatever, no, it's not directed at anyone. I just liked it and wanted to share with my friends smile

Love Song
(From <i>Primavera</i>, Francesca Lia Block)

I know you will not be my lover
but I can't stop this waiting and perhaps
we were different flesh once radiant
in the sand and we traced our fingers
over the beads and amulets of white gold
jasmine stones and we were lost in each other's
long river hair
and maybe I was the man with the huge glorious wrists
and you were a woman with fragile hips and shrouded eyes
and we bore a child and wandered wearing white robes
through the coral pink sands
a child together
a boy who swam in the
eye-blue water by the pink shore and came up dripping
with pearls and singing
and we wore palm leaf crowns
and ate the dates that split with sweetness
and later the bodies were one and in the tomb
the ashes sifted together and the selves' souls found other bodies
aso now when I see or hear you I am wild
to bury myself into you to be buried into
like a grave like a tomb like a garden
and my spirit remembers and shakes this new body
that it soo small to contain the man's love
and I am overcome to be one
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I generally don't like free verse, but I just love this. I have no idea why it touches me so much. smile I just wanted to share. I hope you all like it too.