i hold my tongue, i hold it in my heart

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                    i  hold your tongue:
you have to halve it for love
this very night. there's no easy way --

there's just a face in the city tonight
looking over with sold sleep in her eyes --
there's no other way, it's just how it is --

but tomorrow will always drive me crazy
because my love lusts, my lust loves you
in window panes -- no more soft disdain
                         for what we were before.

but i swear it: i'm in love with the pangs; the dust that i kick up --
walking by your pictured side: can't you see our emptied cup,
the language that is being lost; tired tongues that tried for our lot.

(26th April 2019)

(26th April 2019)

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