Zachary

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We held hands on the last night on Earth,
Our mouths filled with dust.
We kissed in the fields and under trees,
Screaming like dogs and bleeding dark into the leaves.
It was empty on the edge of town but,
We knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river.
So we walked through the waste where the road curved into sea,
And the shattered seasons lay,
And the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease.
In our cancer of passion you said,
"Death is a midnight runner".

The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide.
We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars,
That wore like an antique wedding dress.
The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn,
As the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop.
A few insects skittered away in hopes of a better pastime.
I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked,
If you would accompany me in a quick fall,
But you made me realize my ticket wasn't good for two.
I rode alone.

You said "The cinders are falling like snow",
There is poetry in despair and we sang with an unrivaled beauty,
Bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence of blue and green.
Strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved our names in the flesh of the city. 
The sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon,
And the darkness was a mystery of curves and lines,                   
But still we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward,
And somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation,
Scratched into the Earth like a message.