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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for


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Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

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From what we cannot hold the stars are made.



Your absence has gone through me

Your absence has gone through me



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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain



On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree



We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.



I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.



Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.



The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.



Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.





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