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Cutting through the air

Icicles, huge jagged teeth

Exhaling crystal contrails

His usual bequeath

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Two strangers sat together

Hands joined for light years

Emotions tight as glaciers

Rivers of frozen tears

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Pulsing invisible wavelengths

Emitted into deepest space

The fire consuming itself

Then vanished, without grace

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The heart stops eventually

Nothing more transcends

Only thunder from the heavens

After the dream ends

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Private emotions encrypted

Dots and dashes dispatched

Love adrift on oceans of no return

Lives tangled and mismatched

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Together we sat, eons past

Wishing on a star in a moonless sky

The future already under contract

Speaking with your eyes: why?