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Can we rest yet, love?

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All I want:
 To lie upon the lake shore,
Our breath in time with the slow boast of our hearts
"I am, we are, we live, we love."

To write
  sestinas on your skin
In the silence
As the sun sets.

To come home,
  To sleep soundly,
To find myself
Complete.
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Leurindal's avatar
very elegant writing - the words flow very neatly. The use of sibilants in the first stanza is both pretty and innovative (especially 'sestinas on your skin'!).

I like it very much :heart: