Sandpaper stars know
best is brighter than
the last surrender into
blemished expectations.
best is brighter than
the last surrender into
blemished expectations.
Callous words can not
steal light life has earned
from a baptism of fire.
Time lapsed rapture
left us sipping nicotine
from gamma rays where
we were fashioned in
a cloud of dust.
left us sipping nicotine
from gamma rays where
we were fashioned in
a cloud of dust.
We hang tattered, but whole
in a sapphire universe,
forgiving, forgetting,
overcoming the sanded speech
that tried to strip away our radiance.
©Ben Ditmars & Susie Clevenger 2014
I am proud to have participated in this poetic collaboration with the talented Ben Ditmars. You can find more of his work here.
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