Losing Yesterday

Scratchy the sand grains that grind the gearset in wasted time

Rendering rivulets where tears trace surfaces once sublime

Erasing the cranies from a stone rock made of crumbling lime

While you silently shift through the rubble of yesterday's prime

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A gold facade now eroded through rainfall's duplicitous crime

But a few small pearls in the pile at your feet worth but a dime

Blinking brilliant stars nod to sleep at the reason for a rhyme

As you silently shift through the rubble of a lost prime

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Picked through the precipitous pile pulverized in an arduous climb

Weathered the rich relics of a heart to remnants of choked chyme

Faded blue genes erase the fabric cloaking a vulnerable naked mime

While you silently shift through the rubble of a lost prime

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In the quiet caring moments the past now rests in corners grime

Old photos chronicle love a steadfast beat in the gold clock chime

And in my arms I'll keep you warm as the insular summer clime

Without a need to shift through the rubble of yesterday's lost prime

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