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Beauty
Pain 
Emptiness
Hunger
I see your physical beauty
I see your bright mind
I know your caring aspect
I glimpse your darkness
Hollow 
Void
Echoing space
Chamber of oak panelling and parquet floor
Free fall fear


Your smile stops my heart
Your eyes dance with impish devilry


I don’t know your irreasons
I only know my own

Madness
Anxiety
Delusions
Depression
Stress

I see the stained glass window
Letting through light 
                     Blue, red, gold, waterhue stretching across the floor
Dust motes floating in autumn honey glow

Now your shutters are locked and barred
You wander the chill corridor
Ghost of a shadow
A flicker of moth hunger
Sleep gently in tender blood warm blankets
Snuggle deep in amniotic care

The seasons uncurl
The rain
The clouds break
The light in winter is dazzle low 
Crisp blue days

But when the shutters can’t be forced 
What can you do?
Just wait for the daylight

Photons 

Sunlight, starlight, moon reflection
Open air, open life, open soul

Sail between the stars in a diamond and silk clipper ship
Ebony, mahogany, oak

Return to silver spun fields
Rivers of languorous summer days

Dissolve 

The shutters are locked and barred
The shutters are locked and barred
The shutters are locked and barred

Do I have the key?
Do you have the key?
Do the doctors have the key?
Do friends have the key?

Will the locks evaporate 
Morphed by transient days of ferns uncurling and rhyme
Time
And all, with a photon glacier, will be fine

At least on transient days
Grasp
Cling
Sing
Blink
Blue days