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Jenene

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Published: Aug 26, 2010

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Literature Text

soft hands breathe love
into worn creases
between breath and light.
shaping beauty into empty places
a single word, a lifeline in the dark.
echoing off the tongues of poets
she keeps fragile ghosts
safely wrapped inside her heart,
writing in the dusk
while the world sleeps and softly dreams
she sings elegies
and lovesongs through her fingertips
effortlessly into us.

for my lovely `LadyLincoln

I wrote this for your birthday, darling, but was too shy to post it to you. Talking to you lately made me realise that was a little stupid of me and I should give it to you

so here it is, late, but as true as when I wrote it those days ago. You truly changed my life for the better. I can't really put that into words. though this is my stumbling attempt