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All the Love Locked in Your Heart

The bosom of God heaved
with breath
and like Adam I was cast out
searching for the proverbial Eve;
from the bones of my ancestors
I succumbed,
and the Garden grew in my absence.

I was unwary of evil,
knew nothing of temptation,
all my geese were tamed and blind;
they left no shadows in the sky.

We are here, absorbing the sun
while denying the moon
and her light
let it be,
just let it be.

Return for the first time,
there is love locked in your heart.

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Comments

my desire and I did this in my mind
upon third reading was to remove
"they left no shadows in the sky"
to
"they left no shadows when they fly"

and I know Leave would be better
and flew..But I like Left and fly

more like an eyewitness account
to some apparition scene

for all love locked away
for its secret tame
its magic name
buried beneath the rust of hurt

Thank you

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