No. 01.0

A secret embrace,

Warm and safe;

Two arms that could carry the world

Instead wrapped around a single person,

As if they were most precious of all.

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No. 02.0

The dark is not afraid of the light-

-how could it be, of the brilliant bright?

That simmering softness and lilting sun,

Which brims with fun, and fulsome love.

Revolution and sleep, the dark welcomes both,

The light is its break,

Its innermost hope.

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No. 03.0

The universe cares most deeply for us and you and them.

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One need only look into a mirror to see as much;

In your reflection, there is feeling.

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No. 04.0

Rigidity of thought,

How quaint-

-as if your stubbornness was new.

A thousand have died, just as you’ll do.

Why spend that time stuck rutting with hate-

-you ungrateful swine.

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No. 05.0

The bone cracks; it’s a chicken wing-

-a wishbone. A girl whispers beneath her breath:

“Let me find love.”

She dies of cancer, fourteen months later.

Sammy was seven.

Her parents still love her.

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No. 06.0

‘I apologize.’

‘I am sorry.’

Two or three words: and they’ve choked many relationships.

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No. 07.0

Let us be as Zeus,

Not as he became, but as he was-

-a hero

To his brothers and sisters.

-an end

To tyranny.

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No. 08.0

I am tired, and so are they.

Mayhaps it is best that this is goodbye-

-for now.

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No. 09.0

Romance is no thing of flame or wax;

It is the spark and starter,

And sometimes it falls splat.

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No. 10.0

Youth is an invincible feeling-

I do not envy those who possess it;

An agonizing realization.

-in hindsight.