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Liebestraum 3

It is like a coming to the end of the road
after a long, hard journey

and knowing that here you must settle and live
until you die.

There is no further to go,
nothing more to be done,
only the emptiness of fading away
like trees that lose their leaves slowly

in the warm winters
and must sit half way between life and death.

Life is become a chore,
an impediment to heaven, a separation,
the daily imposes laws which may not be overturned
and situations which may not be eloped from.
This is the taste of love and understanding,
of realms with all dragons slain before,
like the ambiguous herbs of a lasting passover

which stays with us continuously,
knowing not if the angel of the mediocre
shall come in the middie of the night to steal

the fruits of our love,
left only some strange bittersweetness
of awaiting an imagined already attained.

We can go no further though,
this is life,

the flavor on your tongue remains.

-Jay Taylor

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