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Posted: September 16th, 2006, 12:25 pm
our eyes grew strained
our necks stiff
while we watched
for the rainbow
that we were promised
and that never
appeared
someone has forgotten
about us
we reasoned
and realized the silt
around us and the
alluvial filth
and the smell of
sludge and of
all those days of being
too close
to each other
in our vast
isolation
and we felt our salt-crusted faces
and the mud on our feet
and how our eyes stung
with sundried tears
and saline hopes
and we bowed our heads
and began to pray
for the cleansing rains
and the rising waves
once again
our necks stiff
while we watched
for the rainbow
that we were promised
and that never
appeared
someone has forgotten
about us
we reasoned
and realized the silt
around us and the
alluvial filth
and the smell of
sludge and of
all those days of being
too close
to each other
in our vast
isolation
and we felt our salt-crusted faces
and the mud on our feet
and how our eyes stung
with sundried tears
and saline hopes
and we bowed our heads
and began to pray
for the cleansing rains
and the rising waves
once again