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What it means to be devoted:

by Aaron Blair

Your name is like the prayer of a little child,
a devotion so rote as to mean nothing at all.
Palms pointed toward heaven, but empty of substance.

I know you, I know you, I've seen your face,
but what does your face know?

Words in the dark don't drift upwards.
They suffocate in the vacuum.
I watch them die.

03/14/2007

Posted on 04/01/2007
Copyright © 2024 Aaron Blair

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Tom Goss on 04/03/07 at 07:08 PM

A palpable night-meditation on the emptiness of withered promises.

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