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THIS


by

Mark McCann




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THIS

Copyright © 2011 by Mark McCann



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THIS

The willingness and desire of two souls
to occupy the same place











Beautiful Beautiful
Everything yours and mine
Thought and soul
Eternally us
Our soul
Devoured by chaos
Renewed by faith
Where belief becomes certainty

Here love is a scale
that weighs necessity

Hopelessly
Absolutely
As wide as it is deep
As deep as it is real

And I will be forever and ever thankful
If all I get is to just
fall through its shadow











Sometimes when you smile at me
(or just stare)
something impossible happens inside me
like I'm remembering the future
or
maybe the future is remembering me









Writing (beneath the sky of the dream we awoke to)
...
Put my hopes in with passion
and open up the floodgates

This life is not a shyness to be treated
like candlelight in a corner

Words Thoughts Laughter
these are animals we need to be chasing

Where hesitation is a cage
emotion is freedom

So it should be
without breath
that we live
with something
like violence
between memory and detail

Chance
being not necessarily an opponent of certainty
but rather
an intense opportunity where understanding has waivered

We have to find ourselves there
amidst that battle between will and imagination
between this moment and our own souls
even if it is just to witness
an idea break upon
clarity's only shoulder



When something special does survive
that's the inspiration to continue











maybe
the future is the past we owe each other









I don’t know what happens, but when I look into your eyes noise is quiet, and the space between us closes in on itself. The same thing that feels like it should suffocate me lets me breathe.


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