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I can't remember waiting for you

I can only remember the emptiness ...

I was alone

    listening to night sounds

    in the day,

following the rain

    wherever it fell,

facing into the wind,

waiting for green lights,

catching the tempo of the crowd

with my steps ...

going nowhere in particular ...

My quiet rooms

and gentle places

were safe inside my mind ...

There were parties

and party people ...

Sometimes a smile or hasty kiss

was my quiet room ...

but I was waiting. to add text.

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                     II

I must have thought

the shadows safe for hiding

as I groped strange hands,

turned coy smiles aside from theirs,

pressed forward into

a familiar fragrance

and held back

what I had already lost.

I searched for kindness

in cool eyes

and tasted lips

for something I might recognize

and take home with me.

But I was lonesome

and waiting

until you.

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