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Random Poem:

Talking Flutes
theshattered

You never talked like this.
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Not when we were young
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and not when we grew up.
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If I were to make a bracelet out of you
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it would mean I’d have to let you go
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along a thin gold chain, escaping on the other side.
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No—I’d rather make a flute
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so as I blow, the music plays
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and comes swiftly back to me.
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I could never contain your wildness,
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but perhaps I could hear a song before you left.
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I’d strike a note and you would go.
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But at least you would leave echoes
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like chilling crystal mirrors visiting me
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on friendless nights that I can dare
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to revisit memories of our lost melody.
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It makes me wonder now as I play the instrument again—
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hear its weeping, cheerless birdsong as it conquers time and space
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and lulls me down to dreaming of the two of us once more—
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it makes me wonder now if, on lonely nights like this,
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if I dare to listen closely,
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will I hear your crying too?
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