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Dark Stranger
You whoever you are
you have taken my love away
you have entered my soul like a stranger
like a stranger clothed in darkness
an oil spill from my shipwrecked love
you have entered my heart
like a lump of tar inside my shell
dark stranger and instead of a pearl
I find in the chamber of my throbbing
a growing lump of black
Tomorrow I shall go down to the sea
open my shell a chink, wash your gloom
from my heart. Dark stranger
whoever you are, return to the depths
to the bones of wrecks sinking in the silt
tomorrow I will be freed of you
as my body splits empty on a sun baked shore
bleached free of darkness, free of love
© Johnmichael Simon
2012
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