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Owed to the Challenge
If I didn't like puzzles,
I would have left you long ago.
There is my favorite kind of beauty in you,
and it runs so very
deep -
under lock;
rusted key -
you're encoded,
you're shrouded;
you bend to no breeze,
but you're sideways for me...
I would like to be
that kind of mystery;
to struggle from
an underground,
catacombed,
devil-owned heart -
all wound
under, up, and around,
veins like art:
instead, I radiate,
mind-lock and baby-break -
I tell my blood-mistakes
to whomever I please:
I hide very few
leaves of rowan from you,
and those, even - they're yours to see -
my words fly so free,
superficially -
I wear my perspective
on my skin;
blast my heart's little din
for whoever's listening:
my words are just fine -
blunt, unbreaking, and blind -
but yours are like the woods divine,
draped in living symbol-vines,
a bed for the grapes
for your sharp, prophetic
literary wine:
what a poet's shrine;
what a home of mine! -
for me, stars align -
each read, every time -
my heart is so keen
on the way you write.
I would have left you long ago.
There is my favorite kind of beauty in you,
and it runs so very
deep -
under lock;
rusted key -
you're encoded,
you're shrouded;
you bend to no breeze,
but you're sideways for me...
I would like to be
that kind of mystery;
to struggle from
an underground,
catacombed,
devil-owned heart -
all wound
under, up, and around,
veins like art:
instead, I radiate,
mind-lock and baby-break -
I tell my blood-mistakes
to whomever I please:
I hide very few
leaves of rowan from you,
and those, even - they're yours to see -
my words fly so free,
superficially -
I wear my perspective
on my skin;
blast my heart's little din
for whoever's listening:
my words are just fine -
blunt, unbreaking, and blind -
but yours are like the woods divine,
draped in living symbol-vines,
a bed for the grapes
for your sharp, prophetic
literary wine:
what a poet's shrine;
what a home of mine! -
for me, stars align -
each read, every time -
my heart is so keen
on the way you write.
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