Dark Without Us - Scott Virtes

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poem read by Timothy Arliss OBrien

Dark Without Us
Scott Virtes
Published in Trysts of Fate vol 2

I don't want to lose your love tonight:

your non-existent reflection

of who I might have wanted,

back when the sun came up

and I was still human

-- even then I was confused --

you were that wonderful dream

I could never reach,

there every day but

gone without a trace;

now the hunger returns,

a head full of flaming meat ...

I bite my lip bloody,

coil up in the blackest corner;

-- so glad cell phones all died --

your voice was too rich, a habit

I could only flee, dark times

warming my hands on your bright smile,

all broken now, behind our Barriers;

god I miss your laugh.

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