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What I have

Is what I never had

What I now hold close

Is that where I didn't

Ever reach a closeness

Closer then than ever

Even without the knowing

Thus to hold tight onto

All that you gave, all

That I couldn't take away

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I once held the key

Carried it wherever I travelled

Loose, in denim jeans pocket

Close to the desires

Which desired to be unlocked

Earlier I had knocked, on 

A few doors, so many doors

Pouring out stories, and gifting

Gifts with the ease, to tease

That which becomes sacrament

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Neither in the making

Or the breaking apart

No point in raising stakes

For already it is a broken heart

Straight lines and primary colours

As if by Mondrian from the very start

No more might Piet be her brother

Beside the surging River Dart

Impeccable if not indeed precise

Serving Martini, Vermouth chilled with ice

Nothing if not respectable; a career

That careered without a single vice

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So far is far away, so far is by my side

So near is nearer now, so near, here for the ride

Into the canyon

Out of the stream

Into the desert

Out of the dream

So long is longer gone, so long, gone again

So time is timely now, so time, to dance in Maine

Into the starlight

Out to the moon

Into the heavens

Out there in June

So distant is distance, so distant, to define

So yearn as if yearning, so yearn one last line

Into the meadow

Out to the falls

Into the moorland

Out to the calls

So future are futures, so future, by the by

So hope for the hopeful, so hope sees the sky

Into the arms

Out of the alone

Into the embrace

Out of the stone

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I ought to have risen early

What with the end of Arturo Bandini

And the poem by WB Yeats on my mind

As it is I meet the sunlight

And the raindrops, and the wonder

That life might play so many games

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