I celebrate you
And that haunting concentration you used
The soft fire you used
To burn these marks in my body like tattoos
And here in the fairies, daffodils, pleasantries, I celebrate you
We have to learn somehow from the lust that gathers
While staring at the mothers on the video screen
Even though a quiet sheet
And a naked friend
Is enough
In understated ecstasy
Bodies like effigies
We are on the verge forever
But we can cut that cycle of violence like a flower
Me: a baby born of violence, I can cut that violet flower
And I can court sublimity, an ultraviolet lover
And I can come and I can know and I can love with nothing bitter
Love, love, happy love, free as the mountain wind
Two people look at each other, relaxing, relaxing, relaxing
It is something rarely done
Or when done, moved on from like a television show
But it can't be refuted
That the world turns, the hand grasps, the heart beats
And the rhythm of our human speech everybody leaps
These visions are alive
And I try to be kind in the iris eye
But this cord is not concording with the core of the ride
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