Waters Of Night

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Do you remember?
When we were so young,
And, for a moment, free?
Do you remember?
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It could not have been you, on the shore,
You could not have been there,
When I swam into the night,
When I flew into the blue-black water.
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Free and safe and alone,
Glorious the moonless sky,
Star-song of deepest warm dark,
Still I swim the black waters of night.
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Do you remember?
When we were so young,
And for a moment free?
Do you dare remember?
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Wicked, I taunted you, drunk
With our dark night star-songs.
Predator patient, I see you waiting,
Back turned, indifferent, arms akimbo.
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I shall drown in darkness and starlight,
Before I relent and swim ashore.
Your indifference an oily film, reflecting
Remembrance of wondrous bottomless night waters.
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But do you remember?
When we were so young,
And for a moment free?
Do you dare remember?
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Was it nothing or fear that held you?
Or perhaps the stars dazzled you,
When I swam into the moonless sparkle-night,
When I flew into deep starry blackness?
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Singing and alive and alone,
Glorious the warm moonless freedom,
Star-song of the deepest dark.
I fly through the waters of night.
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Can you remember?
When we were so young,
And, for a moment, free?
Do you also remember?
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Bear … 05.23.2014
ⓒ Bearspawprint 2014
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