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All the wishes in us are scattering like dandelion fluff
every seed a friend blown away into foreign soil to take root and spring up stronger
All the while I bide my time in the corner
and his voice reaches my ear from a million miles away
so faint that silence holds its breath just so I can hear
good night, good night

And tonight heaven will know what it's like
to envy
the poetry in every note he sings
farewell hidden in the last chord
before the wind deposits him in richer waters

replaced for the blink of a hummingbird's wings with diversion
where the chambers of opportunity echo my cries
smells of fresh air, wet earth, open sky drifting
path uneven but my stride unfaltering