Calyx

And after I have eaten you
my thoughts shall
	consume you too

but by all means, retain the right to bleed
I simply shall not bore you
with my dreams

	The Figeater's Tale

I recalled the figeater's tale
so the leaves would fall and bury me
too had I spent one more moment in
hesitant protection, or maddening
dreams when really I should have been
flying freely to seek the death that we
know, and the promise that was love
which lingered patiently in the sky,
if only I could have waited for it and
shunned away willingly the world I had
known -- when one day I might
	fly to that other place, embrace
a yellow sky, or even see my cares
drift away like the smoke
	of a burning flower
or distant fireflies
	after the passing of the night hours

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