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                    We say goodbye as the wild earth cries
                    and I lament how the death of love
                    so becomes you

                    I cry out your name

                    Yet
                    Through the long night comes a new pain
                    parting
                    on now
                    strange city streets
                    bequeathing false memories where dark silence                     abounds
                    drowning sound,
                    a tumult of affluent emptiness--

                    I whisper your name

                    my heart's hopes
                    burst forth
                    like a dream merchant marketing solaces,
                    on a sunny Sunday before the church doors open

                    But I am still alone
                    and the slap of you still lingers
                    more potent than any kiss
                    it's because with you
                    I understood
                    alive