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title: less the words you mused
author: Steven
date: 2005-02-14 03:45:31
categories: 
- Musings
tags: 
- poetry
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	beyond my road

	i can hear

	the stream

	

	in ice

	water licks

	the shadow of

	its still self

	and moves on

	

	upon its eddies

	i lay a leaf

	

	greyed

	and dried

	

	not to be restored by this phantom touch of dew

	

	i dream it

	a paper

	filled with words

	you will never know

	

	not for the lack of soul within the words

	no, not that

	it is discretion that moves me so

	

	to wash

	to clean away

	to be all that i am

	

	less

	the words

	you mused.