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A Night's Treaty (Free verse) by rusty
Your body is the treaty
between two savage worlds.
It unites my past and present
all of my desires and fears.
Your eyes are their authors
afraid of forgetting the past
by giving too much to the future.
Your hands, silenced by actions
fixated in the lines of your nails,
open and close like a scroll
holding the most delicate sutra.
For a brief moment I played
trying to reenact your mystery
through actions of abandonment,
but here I found an intimacy
more then our physical union.
Where does night and day begin
except on our body's horizon?
Here the rain falls on us both,
but mingling with our sweat
is only part of it's daily passing.
Drops do not deny they're water,
stop their flow towards the ocean,
create singular treaties or fences.
Why should it be this way for us?
For when we lied beneath this rain
I realized for the first time I was dry.
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