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Created on: December 10, 2008
fleeting memories
of tangerine streaks
that swept the sky
lying there with you
pressed against my side
muted sounds that edged through silence
the soft rhythm of your breathing
the moist scent of you near
oh, that I could capture this instant
and rest till the curl of a pale crescent moon
raises overhead
I would lay there
and claim this moment
that it shall always
be enough
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