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FACE TO FACE
You fade. You fade out. The memories diminish. They come only in waves now that knock the wind out of me and make me feel like I want to eat raw metal. I catch at your heels as you run off to meet your future, you fade out, the movie of our life together is ending, soon it will be all credits and spilled popcorn. The memories diminish, I only live them from time to time, as the sky falls apart and my life comes together in a totally unfamiliar way. You fade, your kisses have disappeared from my skin, no lip-prints anywhere, your touch has faded, my memories are old photographs fading in the light. The world has been cut down to size, and grand passion has yielded to everyday betrayal, it is the most common story after all. After all the years and all the love, after a child pulled through the cut window of your belly, after the blood has been washed away and I hold her in my arms, bringing her to meet you face to face, after it all, it is the most common story after all, that fades, that fades out, the years eat it whole as memory's diminished and I taste metal in my mouth.
Montreal
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