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remember that I do not know you.
though my eyes roll back into invisible memory
and blur your shape into ragged warmth
(I ache to hold)
you have vanished.
Any fluttering slips of lips or lashes
are but jigsaw keys,
half-torn and long since swallowed by time's gaping throat.

this obsession is overpowered
by a corrosive desperation:
it lingers, a lactic acid in my veined emotions.
My adoration clings to you like a saccharine smoke,
twining through the venerated beauty
of your smile.
(how pathetic--)

-- yet content.
shamed as I am, stripped of pride's protection, I
remember that I do not know you;
that though you are real and solid,
you will never exist:
(I do not believe in magic.
or perfection.)

Description
remember that I do not know you.
though my eyes roll back into invisible memory
and blur your shape into ragged warmth
(I ache to hold)
you have vanished.
Any fluttering slips of lips or lashes
are but jigsaw keys,
half-torn and long since swallowed by time's gaping throat.

this obsession is overpowered
by a corrosive desperation:
it lingers, a lactic acid in my veined emotions.
My adoration clings to you like a saccharine smoke,
twining through the venerated beauty
of your smile.
(how pathetic--)

-- yet content.
shamed as I am, stripped of pride's protection, I
remember that I do not know you;
that though you are real and solid,
you will never exist:
(I do not believe in magic.
or perfection.)