Affection Through the Ages

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The kind of love that cuts deep like a sharp blade

That makes hearts bleed with the blood that fills them

 

No time to graze the surface when you’re already latched in

Pump, pour

Glide, push

Friction in motion

 

A ring of ice

A heart ablaze

Dancing in circles indefinitely

 

How long until

A skate catches

the ice cracks

the heart melts

the ice melts

slowly

 

Enthralled by the thaw

Frozen in a moment 

From centuries long past

 

Time stands still

Time skates in circles

Time abounds

Time confounds 

The time is now

 

As ice turns to sea 

The frost spreads

Once drifting above

Now trudging below

 

The tide has changed

The ship has sailed

A love eclipsed

 

The light on the horizon feels hundreds of miles away 

Clouded by shadows 

Grotesque shadows

Familiar shadows

A vulture lurking

In the shadows 

Must learn to fly

 

In the thick of summer heat and

winter cold

the clear of day and 

fog of night

in sun and 

rain and 

dusks and

dawns

 

The beating of wings will make the heart flutter once more

The clearest of lungs will breathe the purest of air

soaring through the open sky

above the open sea

 

The flower blooms and fades

The sun rises and sinks

A lover loves and leaves

 

Passing in parallel 

Such harmony turns tranquil 

Nothing can tie down a floating heart

 

Once overhead

the crashes turn to ripples

the winds turn to breeze

A cold breeze still 

Strikes the face 

with its little breath of fear

But it whispers 

  welcome home-

(Your phantom fortress awaits)