{"id":3810,"date":"2014-01-18T10:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T08:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2014-01-18T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T09:18:12","slug":"without-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"Without Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Without Me<\/strong><\/p>\n

I made a promise to myself – To become famous:<\/p>\n

Not for money, but for Art\u2026.<\/p>\n

The wanting has grown long sinuous roots and become Ancient;<\/p>\n

a deep tree from which Words Cascade \u2013 brief and delicate.<\/p>\n

Springblossoms breathlessly summon parables,<\/p>\n

Settling as dust does on one\u2019s skin; unfolding<\/p>\n

an Unforgettable gaze of beautiful eyes.<\/p>\n

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I will not let you go.<\/p>\n

You promised me the art of the possible<\/p>\n

I gave you desires enough to fill the Universe.<\/p>\n

Intimacy?<\/p>\n

An engrossing challenge for a world in which it now<\/p>\n

Plays to virtual galleries –<\/p>\n

A meditative climax: No more than the trading of stenches<\/p>\n

Kinships crafted by a shared toothbrush\u2026<\/p>\n

You approach heartbreak with a precision tool<\/p>\n

And inseparably utter the cascading syntax<\/p>\n

Of an emotional truth: You cannot love me.<\/p>\n

It is an absurd discourse of alienation,<\/p>\n

which collapses between squeezed embraces of relative strangers-<\/p>\n

On what are relative matters of love and<\/p>\n

Endurance!<\/p>\n

Full blooded, full-bodied and lascivious with Rage,<\/p>\n

Step with me into the twilight of kisses, where conjugating<\/p>\n

A mental breakdown, we may taste each other\u2019s authenticity<\/p>\n

– Just one more time.<\/p>\n

I am not afraid of death, not afraid of that fractured blue hour of Being;<\/p>\n

Incarcerated at birth, I was caught by Life and dangled: a<\/p>\n

Cameo fiction between image and idea<\/p>\n

– A feast for photographers of moral disaster.<\/p>\n

We all carry with us portable kisses, sunk to the bottom of haphazard intentions;<\/p>\n

Unclothed, even God would want the Emperor\u2019s new clothes\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are you looking for?<\/p>\n

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Me?<\/p>\n

I was re-issued on double-cassette and got sifted out with the rest<\/p>\n

Of life\u2019s technological redundancies \u2013<\/p>\n

I have given up Staying Alive just as<\/p>\n

Others have given up cigarettes.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re laughable with your misdemeanours and<\/p>\n

European imagination.<\/p>\n

I prefer death from poverty.<\/p>\n

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I have no voice remotely connected to the human heart.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s done is done in life\u2019s book of love.<\/p>\n

Marauding, unearthing \u2013 ours is a dying language<\/p>\n

Yet, I will eat your sins<\/p>\n

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Were you to promise:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTo never live Without Me?\u201d<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/redroom.com\/member\/renee-sigel\/writing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ren\u00e9e Sigel<\/blockquote><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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