Rapture and Fatigue--Director's Cut

My heart has just burst

With a pain most exquisite-

Jumping on blisters

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O I am weary!

My thoughts are eroding fast

Let them sluice away,

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For they've disguised me.

Please wash away, scales from eyes,

And show me myself

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How I've missed the truth

I scarce remember the grin

I wore when I was glad

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Rinsed, it's not there now.

That is why I cloaked myself

The daylight feels fine

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The sun and I align

Again. Warmth connects with me

A circuit is renewed

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Heart, drained of poisons,

Is rinsed clean; again it's filled

With light and with hope

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Perhaps there's pow'r enough

To restore the girl you left,

Renew expired life

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I was long resigned

To illness, to destruction,

Abandonment, pain

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As you intended.

You jeered and mocked me, darling,

Landing one more blow

)

The skin drinks wine, ah!

The wounds knit the ruptures heal,

But time runs forward,

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Not backward; Not the past.

The present sees its own birth

Without you, I'll begin

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No need to knock, Love--

Love itself, I mean, not you!

My arms thirst for peace.