Rainbow Cadenza

I am trapped until death,
Like a fly adhered to a web,
By a love that endures and enchains
With bonds as beautiful and cruel
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I love the stranger who sits before me at the table in the cafe.
We sit so formally, our conversation polite, reserved, safe.
How odd that just a few (long) months ago without a second thought
I would have reached for his hand
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How I love to wake beside you,
The sun's first tendrils stealing over your face,
Searching, exploring with tentative, intimate grace.
Tinsel strands of golden lashes
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Had you been God the earth would be formless,
Darkness would swirl on the face of the deep.
No light would come forth to breach the endless
Night; no sun to define day, nor stars to sweep,
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My heart has forgotten the gentle rhythm of contentment,
It beats a lamentable tattoo of loneliness and loss,
Twice it has borne rejection,
First by you and now by me,
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