On The Line

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Playing a deadly game---

Stakes so high

I gamble my heart.

Anguish loses meaning in

Angst lost in love.

Love---word that holds more

Meaning than it can

Bear---bears up the

Heart that's forgotten

Itself.

Suffering won for

Passion's gesture---

Heart's most welcome

Resurrections---repeated until...


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