Silly Love Songs

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Merlin's Cave


Love-cursed is right;
you didn't do it;
least not the cursed part.

No, you are no gorgon,
not even close.

I always wonder how anyone ever made it through
your walls.

And how many defeated their head on the out-
side

I feel I am walled up
inside your wall.
I can't go forward and I can't go backward.
And every direction I turn, I'm surrounded by your absence.

Does Anteros with his inverted arrows
satisfy, being turned to stone?

All I see beyond a scorched forest of the Impossible,
my drive and goal,
Love, even more impossible.

I might as well believe in God.




I See the Rainbows in Her Eyelashes


Things she says
remind me of characters from stories
I wish I knew in real life,

someone in a movie
with scenes 
I'd love to emulate.

Screens enchant with her words,
a room changes colors
with each line

and between 
as with visible stars in the
sunset.

With her, everything is new;
memories, minty discovered 
secrets 

of the universe. 
Vibrant as a film that never gets old,
a book that never wrinkles. 

I'd call her vivid, and she'd understand,
though I've never seen her:
Her mind is like that.

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You can do a whole thread on the trope of lashes of eyes.