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The Door and the Darkness | Luiz D. Syphre

There is a black door
between us

the door laughs at me
and it cries at you
but it can never open

it’s fixed forever locked
at the will of a one year old

a manifestation
of everything
I ever did wrong

a new hope and salvation
away from my miseries

I know you’re there
my heart is a compass

that will forever
point to you
my true north

even as your memories
drag me south

I don’t need eyes
to see you
or ears to hear you
we connect to each other
in a spiritual realm
where I can hold you
once more

I embrace you
like I never left

you grace me
with your
sugar kisses

it’s fifteen years ago
in our first apartment
every night

there I die
with our kids
every night

like a fairy tale
in reverse
without an end

I know we both do this
we were meant
to hurt like this

It’s why we met
to hurt
the messenger
told us both

we are half of each other
and fixed in a circle
walking the same ground
going over the same steps

we both try
but cannot
move forward

we can’t escape the past
the door won’t open
It laughs and it cries

and the child innocently
holds the darkness

every time your sorrows
escape your beauty
it stains my pillow

distance is an illusion
imaginary conclusion
baby,
we are not in a delusion

this is really happening

there,
the both of us
with our kids
every night perish

I’m pushing up
your daisies again

Gorgeous!

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