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ALAS AT A LOSS (II) (revised 2nd draft)
rain falls
my softness swells
as i recall
the faintest feels
tastes and smells
of all my
favorite
temporary lovers
such thoroughly
exquisite memories
drown out
the rain
as i savor
and simmer in
our dance
within my mind
to vicariously
relive here again
the warm flesh
the heat
the salty sweat
released
from our turning
burning
working bodies
lost to all
sense of space
and time
in our sweet
impassioned consumption
of each other
with us both
drinking deep
all we could
keep
to momentarily
complete
our insatiable hungers
for each other
as i now
reach back
so longingly
through my
fleeting daydreams
reanimated wonder
alas
at a loss
finding only these
distant ghosts
and me here
now feeling
even more
deeply alone
restlessly tossing
beneath these
cold wrinkled
sheets and covers
with only my
favorite old
memories left
to hold me
here tonight
like ghosts
in my mind
which i
cling to like
some fading fog
to viscerally savor
for as long
as they last
as i vainly
try to recall
their so distant
warmth
as a futile
way to try
to sustain
and further
enhance
my own
presently
much emptier
seems at times
like forever
desolate
loneliness
here
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