Late spring
Lilac season almost done
Still light at 8:00
Yet the routine kills
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Lavender dreams
Weekend spas
Flowers blooming
Pantiless, in the grass
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You have nothing if you have loneliness
Especially if you’re a sweet soul
Never understood
Appreciated by very few
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She smells the flowers
Rejoices
Enjoys her lone splendour
Still in the nest
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Attrition is difficult
We’re used to being alone
Crying ourselves to sleep
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We bathe in the goodness of newfound friends
Try to let go of the past
But cry sometimes
To feel better
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Gimme ten minutes of happiness
For a day of sadness
A fair deal
It’s so delightful
Liberating
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My dear
Uncover your facade
Lose your constant giving
Receive some admiration
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I study your face
That wicked half-smile
Hiding all your woes
What I would give to make that smile real
Sincere
To liberate your spirit
Untire your bones
Your emotional baggage
Lift you up
Watch you levitate
That unbearable lightness….
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I write as I wake before dawn
Feeling you
Knowing we’ll meet
Embrace
Kiss
In such an unforced, natural way
With complete freedom
We co-exist
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There’s so much to adjustment
But I trust your judgement
And if all that happens stays only in my head
It shall have to be enough
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Attrition
Escape
Freedom
They have found us
At a later age
But we’re eternally young
Copyright Ted Kouretas 2014