The Lord of Stripes
In my dreams
I take the paws
Of a lonely tiger
And together we dance
My love, I’ll find you
Ablaze in a funeral pyre
We swim together
The tiger and I
Through cities
Made of emerald
My love, I’ll find you
Ablaze in a funeral pyre
Lions watch jealously
As the king of the jungle
Is passed over
For the lord of the dance
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Los Flores de la Luna
No one in the world
Be quite like you
With honeysuckle eyes
Happiness and sad
Flow through my roots
Like time through sand
I have seen the
Ever blooming lotus,
To grace these lips
Life’s most humorous
Happiness and sad
Flow through my roots
Like time through sand
Above all others
You are a flower
Growing ever more
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Drifting Sands
I
He sits upon his thrown
Free of metaphor and myth
Ruling all he sees with
A fist made of feathers
Or some other soft substance
II
I have seen a familiar man,
Growing old in many mirrors.
Many faces belonging to one
With so many stories to tell,
But none come to mind
III
Bare witness to all things
Both average and mundane,
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