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Slow is the Creep

It starts with a flash
or a light of a match
burning slowly
                     lovers lie in embers

It isn’t what she left
on those Crown Heights streets
the black eyes or shattered soul 
it’s where her heart beats
quietly time takes its toll

In this city
we so swiftly
fail to remember who we are
Sipping on delusions
while injustice tiptoes
outside broken brick walls

ghosts watch us
from perched lookouts
everyone’s a little lifeless
but on these lively streets
even the inert heart beats

That isn’t necessarily
what this is about though

In the galley
embracing as if
there is no tomorrow            
                         souls entwine   

Remarkable beauty—
seeing young lovers
in Shakespearian dream
while
the smell of snow
the stench of ardor
rise-up-into-the-sky
never asking why
the innocent wilt
right before they die

her lips are chapped
winter has come

slow is the creep of obscurity

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