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For a Gasp of Air

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I cannot sleep, for whispers echo in my mind.
                                              echo
                                                     echo


I cannot laugh, for smiling without you is scandalous
                (-but I chuckle discreetly nonethless.)

I cannot blush flirtatiously, for those loving compliments
cease to flow fluidly,
for those minute obsessions blow to dust with the wind.

I cannot move on,

                for I need to sue the seasons or the autumn
leaves for their over-shy discreetness,
                (come along fall! blush vividly upon me!)
                                                             and I need to stop
time for a moment to cherish the yellow-earth hues.

I cannot demand for more, in fear of being categorized greedy,
                but selfish wishes of "better-be's"; armies invading
my foreign mind.

I cannot talk like them, for I despise their              minds: walls
                                                                  narrow
breathing upon me,
                but for unpolitically correctness; I want not to upset.

And I sigh my despair
                
                for not enough time and too much to do, when I need
to spare a moment for contemplation and nothings,
                for the faces in the bottom of my tea-cup.

                For not being happy, nor sad; but content. For wishing
for exhiliration; or for wanting it all.

Yet
      there is far too much sky to hide from, but enough blue to get
lost in
                for pink streaks of aeroplane dust-clouds;

                for fleeting stares that make me smile.

For realizing that these words are necessary,
                for improving and healing.

For a gasp of air, and for going to bed too late.   
                                                                           
autumn.
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Drakeno's avatar
Awesome(ness).

Sorry. Been busy for quite a bit. Keep up the wonderful.. Smile!