Places in my mind
I routinely go
bathed in nerves
and moonlight
my breath held
in midnight exchanges
________
Can I keep you?
concealed in a song
a moment solidified
wide eyed and wanting
like a photograph, framed
a memento of lost youth
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Can I keep you?
under that full moon
despite the moment being
fleeting and delicate
it’s like glass, stained
a relic of midnights past
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