you savaged me

(fairly and unfairly)

and after the strife

of common argument

you embraced me

and for a moment

it felt the way it did

when we first joined

the tender kisses

the open acceptance

of our merging

into one happy transcendent

position that still ties us

together through the fraying years

of our decline


after that kiss

after that embrace

it was as if there were no time

but the savagery of the instant


this moment of manifestation

we call eternal...



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