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Her Ghost Still Sleeps Besides Me

Mike Brennan

Her ghost still sleeps beside me
Although our connection was canceled
By the brutal winds waving goodbye
Between us

The old aura flickers
Fleeting as a dying lamp
Beckoning
Our forgotten shadow figures
With your fragrant fatale list
A lingering mist
An incense of strange transits
As intoxicating as the Far East’s opiates

Her phantom profile is as inviting
As a tavern necked
Upon the solemn docks of sudden departure
A quick inhalation of salt
Off this crumbling empire
& the stars all burst
At alarmed attention
To the crimson void invested
Upon this Atlantis of a landscape

Where we found reason
Reaching for something long lost
Within the paradoxical ruin
Of both virtue and sin
& all the horrors that
Tomorrow promises to bring.

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