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there exists an ageless knowledge, calling
silent wisdom hidden on the other side of waterfalls
elements beyond mortal grasp and colors escaping these eyes
there exist countless entities unseen concerning this cosmos, that I
will never know, I will never learn, but
of fire, I know
her incensed heart and soul
speaking with skipping pulse and raging motion
and I know with desperate hunger, she clings to oxygen
reaching with flickering arms
for the air that promises to sustain
so you, my little earth flower scorned
if you feel your lonely essence going up in smoke, listen:
you must stop
breathing life
into the fire that burns you
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photo: sunset & half moon over Tampa, Florida, september 2018