Then Danced A Shadow

Flashes from long ago…
That won’t fade away
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Trimmed these sails
To light in your port
Then danced away
Fear, just me
Same as ever so

Twixt these twin shadows
I am not torn
Yet have these relics been only
One a wound as will not close
Twins adored

Riddled to shreds
My heart and my mind
I’ve walked me to a spiral
That loops returnt to itself
Of touches unendured

O lust that betrays me
Let me distill this dream
For I touched not thy tresses
That last time so fair
Though twas cold bitter cold

For fear or was it fear?
For some thing I dared not again
O why did I pull loose
This anchor when not half set?
Open these arms this time an’ I return

Two shadows
My sails have harbor’d
Between thy ports
Mooring in but the one
Though the other left fair trade

O let me be, cursed dreaming
Let my breath be my own
Or let down thy slip
Let me mind this fair haven
The dark one that has haunted me so

Think this paradox?
No but painful
To dream to lift this fair veil
Of the white
Of the fountain
Of the longest long lingering

Let me come here
Or throw me to the stars
And let me ne’er hear again
Nor see with these eyes
These browning lands ever.

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