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Topic: Time-consuming (02/24/11)

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• TITLE: Of me In You | Previous Challenge Entry
  By Henry Clemmons
  03/03/11
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With what remains

I kneel in dirt, so dust, so dry, so creek-bed-dead … I cry
I breathe in ash, so cinder, so charred, so colorless gray … I pray

Scorched solar switches lash and slash my blistered bare back … I bleed
I plead
With what remains of me

Drops of blood

Splash

On barren earth in time with my wristwatch … tick
Parched pale land swallows each red … drip
A thirst never quenched, a glut with no … quit

I plead
With what remains of me

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I left
Tomorrow
Swallowed in yesterday
Inside a pine box of what could have been

What a waste of …

So much
In the past

I knelt on gold, so bright, so bold, so filthy rich cold … I lied
I drank fine wine, so dry, so smooth, so sate with pride … I died
Like a loosed leaf … dried
Like a loosed leaf … dried

I floated from the tree of golden apples
Captured by breezes
To the river of ash
Where I saw my reflection
In a creek-bed-so-dead … I cried
In a creek-bed-so-dead … I cried

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I plead from what is left

Mercy … God … please
Forgive

Consume time survived
Like a seed
In your garden of life

And if I bloom in the spring
Let my reflection
Be
Your face

With what remains

Of me
In You

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