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I am learning to abandon the World
I am abandon World
Before it can abandon me.
Before It can Me
Already i have given up on the moon
Already given up moon
And snow, Closing my shades
And Snow Closing Shades
Against the claims of white
against claims white
And the world has taken
And the taken
My father, my friends
My friends
I have given up on melodic lines of hills,
I have melodic hills
moving to a flat tuneless landscape
moving flat landscape
and every night i give my body up
and every body up
limb by limb working upwards
limb upwards
across bone, towards the heart
across the heart
but morning comes with small reprieves of coffee and birdsong
but morning coffee and birdsong
a tree outside the window
a tree window
which was simply shadow moments ago
which was shadow ago
takes back its branches twig
takes back twig
by leafy twig
by twig
and as i take my body back
and as take back
the sun lays its warm muzzle on my lap
the sun warm muzzle lap
as if to make amends
as if amends