Xenization
BY Kassidy Siebert
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with our fingers
intensively around, with hugging finger tips.
we greet our greatly, familiar loved ones
Sun, Moon, Stars - they have followed me through our time
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they smile down on me today
winking their celestial light from above
evigheden , read the gentle heavens
"everlasting, neverending, immortal, eternal"
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tangled, entangled, in a sensational
bond
blinded by honest, full, and
virtuous love
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gentle breezes, or typhoons,
sun light to scorch.
this connection between
us
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is untouchable
touch, warped our existences
into once, tight embrace
warm bright rays defracting innocently
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lying awake
the Stars wink with favor with bliss
good things
another winter solstice brings
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pray upward to those shimmering faces
to prolong such fruitful
promising days
prepare for peace and fortune
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wide clear virgin skies - open to fly
where the wind takes
on a pair of fresh wings...
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expectations, hope,
disappointment, pain
as a child never realizing
they're one in the same
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the ideologies we dreamt
for this time intended for
US
torment me now
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we’re near but not together
the distance of young fallen
pine distances you from me
so detached and lost this life has become
calling out for you is vain
not being able to breath
with this medical mussel strapped
to my face,
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i long for a brush of rebellious
contact. But it's forbidden to touch
even from the beating Sun, cool Moon,
plush grass, wild wind, or rushing river.
i disdain and wallow and
envy of the simple times
i spurn and scorn and
flout in you
these tired brick walls
have grown bored of my
pacing, like a caged animal
back and forth in my domain
i spite this entrapment
repeating this day
as though i’m trapped in
a never ending replay
watching the Sun stretch up into the
empyrean to rest on the horizon relaying
with the Moon
i blundered around in those days of freedom
being able to greet the freshness of liberty
now the brick walls that encase me scoff at my existence
i’m aware lives are at stake
legends have past on
elderly have descended
i’m aware the world is feeling the affects as well
as i
but i miss the soft kiss of
the puffed up clouds with you by my side
Right by my side
from the orgulous presence of my home i can see the world start
crumbling under the weight
of the empty cavern of the years fate
the beautiful window of hope
has shatter into broken
families
lives
and hearts
i’m losing my grip
the relentless, ramped stampede
of vines and weeds
penetrate my meadow of flowers
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the meadow where we planned to sore
taken flight to a serene secluded sea
Sunlight glittering soft syllables
and strands of sweet songs
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bitter those memories make me
clipped, broken an empty without our connection
being severed from each other
torn from that of which i knew
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shivering alone as the brumous world swallows and
the darkness encases me
my lonely Xenizated being withering away
into nothing
for what will i be at the end of this
when you or the Sun or the Moon or the Stars
no longer recognize me?
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Xenization: The state of being made a stanger, to be a stranger.
Python: A Danish word meaning without an end/eternal
Empyrean: referring to the highest part of heaven
orgulous: meaning hauntly, ghostly, ominous.
brumous: dark, wintry, cold.
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